A quiet Fourth

[thedarkages]

The best Fourths of July are in my past. There were picnics, parades, and fireworks. Then these things began to disappear. Last to go were the fireworks. For a few years, you could stand on a hill in back of the graduate student dorms at UC Irvine and see the fireworks go off all over Irvine and Tustin, and, if you looked behind you and squinted,

Comments

[msfledermaus]

Hmmm...maybe we can have a belated fourth of July for you here at the Island when you and Beth come by. I can score a bunch of post-holiday fireworks, and we can have a picnic. No parades, unless I get chased by geese, which is a distinct possibility...

I swear, there is something morally bankrupt about charging money to see fireworks. Wrong, I say!

[thedarkages]

We're actually scared of fireworks close up. The great thing about the hill was that you could see the fireworks but that you were at enough of a distance that there weren't the risks of being deafened or incinerated.

But, yes, charging for fireworks is really lousy. In these times, the schools need all the money they can get, but I have the feeling that they don't get very much of the cut.