The museum celebrates the rich 'pageant' of the town's history. [=celebrates all the interesting things that have happened in the town's history]
Their church puts on an annual Christmas 'pageant'.
They disagreed with the 'pageant' judges.
(..) had settled down again. I still looked for Boo everytime I went bythe Radley place. This night my mind was filled with Halloween. There was to be a pageant representing our county's agricultural products. I was to be a ham. Jem saidhe would escort me to the school auditorium. Thus began our longest (..)1962 To Kill a Mockingbird