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Day of the Dead Celebration Nov. 1
Sheridan County Library System Director Amy Long and Youth Services Manager Zola Shockley appeared on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse to announce the library’s upcoming Day of the Dead celebration.
In partnership with the WYO Theater, Downtown Sheridan Association, Little Goose Enrichment, and the Sheridan County Library System, the Day of the Dead celebration is a family event featuring crafts, face painting, food, drink and music, all centered around El Día de los Muertos.
Day of the Dead is a cultural celebration for people in Mexico and Central America, as well as many Mexican Americans. The day honors and commemorates the lives of the departed and welcomes the return of their spirits.
The event begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, at the WYO Theater.
Z. Shockley
Shockley said the family-friendly event has plenty of fun for parents and guardians as well.
Z. Shockley
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Dennis Fox
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 pm
In Western Civilization, Nov 1 has traditionally been “All Saints Day.”
Now our local library, is using tax dollars to celebrate a foreign culture’s “Day of the Dead” for our kids.
Seems a little odd doesn’t it?
Lawrence Verdin
October 22, 2025 at 3:02 pm
Dennis, wait until you hear about St. Patrick’s Day, it’s going to blow your mind. An Irish holiday we celebrate here in the states, can you believe that.
Also, this big one coming up, Halloween! Totally foreign, originally a Celtic holiday, why do we even put anything together for it over here?
Don’t even get me started with Passover, Oktoberfest, Ramadan, Diwali, or Yom Kippur, absolutely insane that we put these on our calendar’s and local communities celebrate them. It’s like this country is some sort of cultural melting pot or something!
Dennis Fox
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 pm
Point made. Was really more concerned with the “Dead” part for little kids, than the idea of it being foreign.
Don’t really think we need a celebration of death, especially on All Saints Day.
And yes, I was stationed in Germany and my neighbor invited me over for their traditional Christmas celebration. It was just like being home w/ my family.
Harriett Oleson
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 pm
Extremely well, said Lawrence, but don’t blame Ole Denny.
A lot of folks have forgotten what REALLY made America great..
Dennis Fox
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 pm
We came from different backgrounds but United around the common American Founding Principles of: Individual Liberty, Limited Government and the Rule of Law.
Out of Many One. E Pluribus Unim.
It’s not our diversity that makes us strong, it’s our common American Culture, Language and Governing Principles.
Trying to change a thousands-year-old day Called “All Saints Day” (Nov.1) into Mexico’s Dead Day and celebrate it here in America; is wrong. It’s cultural mis-appropriation at best.
If we let lefties destroy our culture, we will lose what our founders fought and died for: Freedom
The WH just re-affirmed that 12 Oct is still known as Columbus Day.
Lawrence Verdin
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 pm
Dennis, Dia De Los Muertos goes back almost 3,000 years in “western civilization” it’s almost twice as old as All Saints Day, back to Mesoamerica and the Aztecs. In fact there are probably a ton of people who celebrate both All Saints Day and the Day of the Dead because a vast majority of Mexican citizens and Mexican-American citizens are Christians. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.
Lawrence Verdin
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 pm
Dennis, the “American Freedom” you’re mentioning here is quintessentially the freedom to choose. The created “culture of self-governing greatness” does not exist without the ability to choose between two or more different things. In fact, the inability to choose whatever it is you want, like in this scenario being able to choose between celebrating either holiday or both or neither, is exactly what freedom is. When you say “It’s either putting America First or Not” you are taking away the freedom of that choice. So, in a sense, you are actually opposed to that “American Freedom”.
Dennis Fox
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 pm
The article was about using tax dollars to promote a foreign holiday from another country’s culture, via the library. That means gov’t made the choice for us, using our own money to put another country first. That is wrong. It obliterates our choice. The gov’t did it for us…for our own good?
That’s not freedom.
You do have the freedom to vote for a lower (5%) sales tax next year and keep money out of the coffers of our wasteful gov’t.
With more of our own money in our own pockets, we can choose to celebrate any holiday we want. Using our own money of course, and not squandering scarce tax-payer dollars.
Lawrence Verdin
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 am
Ok Dennis, with what you just stipulated, the library is “promoting a foreign holiday from another country’s culture” why have you not been upset and commented about any of the city or government entities having events around St. Patrick’s Day, or Halloween, or Christmas, or Passover, or Diwali, or Ramadan, or even the All Saints’ Day celebration that you originally mentioned? None of those are holiday’s that were founded in America. They’re all different parts of other cultures that American’s also celebrate.
And guess what, you have the freedom to choose to not celebrate it or partake in the event. It’s weird that this sole example from the library is the one that you’re upset about, because a very good amount of freedom loving American companies also understand that there is a large market for at the very least introducing other American citizens to this culture and event, and you know why? Because we have a massive amount of Spanish-American citizens, in this community and beyond, that have celebrated this day for GENERATIONS. Again, the event dates back to almost 3,000 years.