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Annual, each July · the parks calendar
The newcomer: The youngest annual in this record is the city's own Independence Day Celebration — live music, children's games and activities, food, arts and crafts, local business vendors, and fireworks — which the parks department's activity guide billed in 2022 as "our fourth annual Independence Day Celebration," held that year on July 2. The guide's own counting puts the first edition in 2019, and it is printed as the guide's counting, not independently verified edition by edition. The celebration is the modern, municipal form of the city's oldest event instinct: the Fourth of July was Mishawaka's greatest made day in 1909, when the pageant opened the hotel and lit the streets; the standing July celebration of the present calendar descends from that date in function, whatever its paperwork line — a distinction this entry prints plainly, claiming the continuity of the day and not an unbroken institutional line the record does not show.
Sources:
- City of Mishawaka, Parks and Recreation Activity Guide (2022) — the "fourth annual Independence Day Celebration," its July 2 date, and its program of music, games, food, vendors, and fireworks.
- The 1909 entry above (evt-pageant-1909) — the Fourth of July as the city's great made day, from the commissioned history.