How to Spend Memo­r­ial Day

Memo­r­ial Day is an Amer­i­can hol­i­day, ob­served on the last Mon­day of May, that hon­ors the vet­er­ans who died while serv­ing in the U.S. mil­i­tary. Memo­r­ial Day 2019 will oc­cur on Mon­day, May 27. Orig­i­nally known as Dec­o­ra­tion Day, it started in the years af­ter the Civil War and be­came an of­fi­cial fed­eral hol­i­day in 1971. Many fam­i­lies cel­e­brate Memo­r­ial Day by vis­it­ing ceme­ter­ies or memo­ri­als, hold­ing fam­ily gath­er­ings and par­tic­i­pat­ing in pa­rades.

To Maryville stu­dent, Nathan Busch, Memo­r­ial Day holds a spe­cial place in his heart. “Memo­r­ial day is spe­cial to me be­cause my grandpa is a re­tired ma­rine, and well al­ways go by the vet­er­ans home on this day,” Busch said.

To start the sum­mer of right=and have a great Memo­r­ial Day week­end, there are many ways you can cel­e­brate Memo­r­ial Day. St. Louis has many events you can go to for Memo­r­ial Day.

Built by famed army Gen­eral Ulysses S. Grant, Grant’s Farm is a fun at­trac­tion home to many ex­otic an­i­mals and a beau­ti­ful gar­den.

Memo­r­ial Day is the ar­rival of lo­cal food trucks with en­trees, snacks and sweets in the Tier­garten. You can also see live mu­sic, carousel rides, and other fam­ily-friendly ac­tiv­i­ties through­out the week­end.

At the Spring to Dance Fes­ti­val, thirty dance com­pa­nies from around the coun­try per­form dur­ing a three-day fes­ti­val ded­i­cated to dance at the Touhill Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter. 

This an­nual event, now in its 12th year, brings in top dancers show­ing off tal­ents in every­thing from bal­let and hip-hop to mod­ern and jazz. Tick­ets are re­quired and can be pur­chased in ad­vance.

The St. Louis African Arts Fes­ti­val is held at the his­toric World’s Fair Pavil­ion in beau­ti­ful For­est Park. The three-day cel­e­bra­tion in­cludes live mu­sic and en­ter­tain­ment, an African mar­ket­place, and a food court.

There’s also a chil­dren’s vil­lage with crafts and other art-themed ac­tiv­i­ties for the kids. Ad­mis­sion to the en­tire fes­ti­val is free.

For more in­for­ma­tion and more events click here.——>  https://​www.trip­savvy.com/​memo­r­ial-day-week­end-events-in-st-louis-3137504