4th of July

Any good 4th of July starts out with a good old-fashioned small town parade. James and I trucked down to mainstreet Lander for yet another great year of the Lander parade. We went to the parade nearly every year when I was growing up, and it was comforting that not much had changed. There were lots of horses, fair queens and princesses, community organizations and every firetruck from the area was there to hose down the crowd at the end of the parade. I don't take great live action shots, but more pictures from the parade are posted in our Picasa album.

After a morning of baking along mainstreet, we headed down to City Park for Buffalo Bratwurst. They were quite delicious and the park was full of all sorts of people. Though maybe not ethnically diverse, the mix of wildland firefighters, cowboys, hippies, yuppies, Native Americans, the rich and the poor made for a fascinating day of people watching. The park also has a small creek/irrigation stream running through it (which I swear was much larger when I was little!). This made for a great day of kid watching as they ran up and down this muddy, 1-2 foot wide path of water.

Anyway, in thinking about the diversity of Fremont County we came across the following statistics. Nothing suprising compared to what we see everyday, just something interesting to share.

White - 76.5%
Black or African American - 0.1%
American Indian and Alaska native - 19.7%
Asian - 0.3%
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander - 0.0%
Some other race - 1.2%
Two or more races - 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino - 4.4%
(from the City of Lander website)