July Fourth
CBS, Mugar: Reality is so overrated
By adamg - 7/8/11 - 7:46 am
Next year's display? By Aughtomat, who also gives us this.
The Globe talks to the guy who organizes the Esplanade fireworks, who basically goes, yeah, so we did some fake shots, big deal, David E. Kelley shoots his "Boston" shows in LA.
Prominently quoted is our own Kaz, who first noted the bogus shots.
They didn't shoot off all the fireworks last night
By adamg - 7/5/11 - 7:48 amThe fireworks barge on the Charles caught fire around 5:30 a.m., with 15 live charges on board, sending thick black smoke into the air - and fire departments in both Boston and Cambridge ordering boaters to stay way the hell away, Nichole Davis at New England Roadways reported.
Fireworks over the Esplanade
By adamg - 7/5/11 - 12:02 am
July 3rd with the Pops
By adamg - 7/4/11 - 3:02 pm
Leslee took in the rehersal performance at the Hatch Shell.
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And here to give the opposing viewpoint ...
By adamg - 7/3/11 - 6:46 pm
At one point, His Majesty's commander here had his soldiers point their bayonets at the colonists assembled outside the Old State House and take a stop forward to see if the cowards would move back. They did. At another point, he led the assembled throng in a chant of "Penobscot," figuring they really wouldn't know why. It worked.
Salem used to get really fired up over the Fourth
By adamg - 7/3/11 - 10:31 amYoni Appelbaum reports on days of yore when Salem would light massive bonfires to herald July Fourth:
For weeks, volunteers assembled materials, stacking them into a towering pyramid reaching high into the air. Fat hogsheads on the bottom supported row upon row of oily casks, topped with layers of smaller kegs. The pyramid claimed eight thousand barrels; some years, it had forty tiers. At midnight, a bundle of burning rags was run up to the top on wire pulleys, igniting the pile and announcing "that the night has turned into the morning of a new year of liberty."
The Fourth came a little early in Somerville
By adamg - 7/1/11 - 7:53 am
Somerville held its July 4th fireworks last night, and what would a celebration of American independence be without fried dough? Chris Devers watched the bombs bursting in air.
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Mad dogs and Englishmen
By adamg - 7/5/10 - 5:18 pm
OK, and some tourists and crazed Bostonians slurping down hot chowder in front of City Hall. On a day like this, when even the people in T-shirts were dying, we can only imagine what it was like to march around downtown Boston reclaiming the territory for His Majesty in heavy woolen uniforms.
In case you didn't get enough fireworks last night
By adamg - 7/5/10 - 5:14 pmAt Albemarle Field in Newton last night. Meanwhile, Vasant Marur shot the Esplanade fireworks:
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Man v. Nature: always go with Man
By JohnAKeith - 7/5/10 - 10:58 amDerrick Jackson at the Boston Globe notices how the Charles River is so nice and clean, these days:
On the Fourth of July, the Charles River retreats to a backdrop for the majestic music of the Pops and the magic of fireworks. On closer look, we have much more to celebrate, as we have granted these once-horribly polluted waters their own independence ...
Not only the river itself but the pathways along the Charles have become much cleaner, the result of efforts by the state and private organizations to reduce the effects of having a large resident geese population.
