Pioneer Day in Saint George

Plan a full day to see some of the great pioneer homes in Saint George. Start your adventure at the McQuarrie Memorial Pioneer Museum (open M-S 10-5) at 145 North 100 East, Saint George (just off of the main boulevard). This museum is great and full of amazing old photos and artifacts from the early times of Saint George. They sell homemade honey taffy for $1 a bag and I always bribe my kids if they are patient and learn they can have a bag to share. Then we go on to the Brigham Young Winter home, which sits at the northwest corner of Ancestor Square (67 west 200 North open 9AM-7PM). The missionaries will guide your experience. Point out the small hallways and stairways and wonderful gardens outside. Then make your way on Sunset (west off of Bluff Street into Santa Clara). This old road has many old homes and if it is still in business in this location, many people love to stop at Grandma Tobler's Kitchen and Bakery at 2862 Santa Clara Drive (old pink house) for a good old fashioned freshly baked pecan roll. Further down Santa Clara Drive is the Jacob Hamblin home, a notable early pioneer of the area. Again missionaries will guide your experience. Follow this road (the former old highway) back through Arizona and see some old stone houses along the way. The road will bring you back through Beaver Dam. If you are not familiar with this route, please consult a good map. If everyone is of good energy, visit our local pioneer museum on Mesquite Blvd. For after trip enrichments at home: make homemade salt water taffy to pull, make pie dough cookies with sugar, play pioneer games such as: drop the handkerchief see: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210182/games.html, or make homemade butter with heavy cream shaken in its container (takes a while).

DJW