Editing the Declaration of Independence from the first swivel chair.

"God save our American States!"

Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back. I don't remember watching the entire program (posted earlier), but I do remember this one clip and afterward all through the 80s and 90s I searched for this particular firework. A large, black, unmarked firwork that could produce a flying, flaming coffee can. No such firework exists. Now I want one more than ever. To be the old, mysterious, drunk guy to light off the ONE infamous firework, going down in neighborhood history as a timeless legend, and then disappear without a trace.

🫡 🇺🇸 🎆 July 4th, 1978, Boston, Mass.

I wonder if they saved J.E.B. Stuarts beard? Or Longstreets? I remember the laughs in the theater over those two. My entire 8th grade was taken to see Gettysburg. Field trip to the movies. More candy was launched across that auditorium than all the shots fired during Little Round Top. Those poor, innocent civilians that said to themselves "let's go see a movie on this weekday afternoon" had no idea they would be invaded by a junior high history field trip. No one expects two things: the Spanish Inquisition and 150 students at the movies. Depending on which side you're from, deciding which is a more worse experience is a toss up.

The Great American 4th of July and Other Disasters