The 45th annual Canaltown Days will be held on Saturday and Sunday this weekend on Main Street in Palmyra.

Come out and enjoy games, vendors and much more!

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Three event highlights

1 -- The food. The festival kitchen, run for years by George Hanushevsky of Irondequoit, serves up plates full of traditional, homemade Ukrainian foods such as varenyk (also called pyrohy or pierogies), a potato and cheese dumpling; holubets, stuffed cabbage rolls; kovbasa, Ukrainian sausage; kapusta, Ukrainian-style sauerkraut; and borshch, a beet soup. Prices range from $10 for a combination plate to $1 to $4.50 for single items.

2 -- The entertainment. The festival’s featured folk dancers from near and far are always a hit, as are music for dancing each evening, and performing groups like Melody Lane, Heavenstar, Mosaic, and more. Look for the high-flying dancers, including the Chaika Performing Ensemble from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at 3 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 and 5 p.m. Sunday.

One hill, two dramas and 350 missionaries and the now historic Hill Cumorah Pageant was born, but the pageant’s roots go much deeper than that.

In 1917 missionaries from the Church of Latter-Day Saints came together at the Smith Farm in Palmyra for a convention. The annual meeting was a reunion of sorts and attendees began planning picnics, athletic events and small skits to celebrate this gathering of friends. The event became known as the Cumorah Conference, which convened to coincide with the Pioneer Day celebration on July 24 marking Brigham Young’s arrival at the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.