Rumbling in Greenview Knolls Area.
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Tech
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How did I miss this?
LightRoasted
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If one wanted to go, one would have to pay for a ticket, $45 or $55, and pay for "preferred" parking as well, if you didn't want to walk a mile to the event site. Then there's the food trucks. But then, if one had a boat, one could have just anchored outside the restriction area, and watched for free.How did I miss this?
PeoplesElbow
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I had never even heard of it.
The festival will open at 3 p.m. for guests to start enjoying the event. Tickets are on sale now for $35 – $55 per person for general admission and $130 -$160 for an all-inclusive VIP ticket.
With free general parking, free entry for children under 5, and a 10% discount for military personnel, there are several reasons for the whole family to come! Plus, proceeds will go towards the Southern Maryland Food Bank.
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Me either. Had a friend, (unbelievable that I have one, or two), text me asking if I wanted to go, yesterday afternoon. And I was like, "What fireworks?" "Where?" Didn't go. But whomever was doing the promoting of the event, did a real lousy job of it. No billboard signs. No advertising here on SOMD. None in The County Times, St Mary's or Calvert. Never heard anything on the radio about it. Had I, weeks ago, I might have actually planned for it and gone. Or I might have taken the boat out. But I wasn't about to rush about prepping the boat, getting belly supplies, launching it, then tooting over to the park area, so late in the afternoon. I wonder what the public attendance numbers were?
PeoplesElbow
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Ah our radio stations here suck so I never bother listening. I tune into one from the eastern shore when I'm in south St Mary's and one from DC when in north St Mary's.
I was there, it was definitely worth the money if you’re a fireworks person. It was the fireworks company for the opening and closing then three wannabes for the main show. The first one was a German duo who did a spectacular show to the theme “Carry On”. This show itself was worth the money. The second production was a Filipino individual who’s show was about a dragon who comes out of the sea to eat the moon (originally there were seven moons). The natives scared away the dragon by making noise, banging pots and pans together. This is supposed to be a celebration of their victory. The third was a Turkish individual, I didn’t catch the theme of that show, but it had bazaar type music that morphed into Greek wedding music.
Blister
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If someone did not explain these elaborate "themes" could an average person decipher the alleged storylines?
Once you've seen one fireworks show you've seen a fireworks show. It's fun the first time your kid sees it, and then every year after that it is just more noise, crowds, and the stink of sulfur. Then sitting in traffic for an hour talking about how much better this noisy stinkfest was than last years noisy stinkfest.
And surprisingly, I knew about it and did not go.
When we went to Vermont for my 40th class reunion in 2019, it was also Norwich's 200th.
We had fireworks both on campus and at the hotel where the class banquets and parties were, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
Were told the outlay was over $2 Million for the displays.
Kind of spoiled us for a while.
We had fireworks both on campus and at the hotel where the class banquets and parties were, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
Were told the outlay was over $2 Million for the displays.
Kind of spoiled us for a while.
No they couldn’t, but the show was very well choreographed to the music and had some amazing low level fireworks (less than 30’ up) to go with the high stuff. I’ve been seeing and playing with fireworks for more than 50 years and I still get excited by them.
Grumpy
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Yesterday, i met the guy that put this show on, Tim Jameson of Innovative Pyrotechnic Concepts. Son was searching the web for reusable tubes for mortars and came across his name and noticed he lives in SOMD. For the heck of it, he DM'ed him and he answered saying to drop by and he will give him some tube racks. Guy couldn't have been nicer, chatted with him for 30 minutes.
When we lived in Nebraska in the late 80's, fireworks were legal all year long, but you could only buy them in state for the 4 weeks prior to Independence Day. All were sold as fundraisers for charities and community organizations. My Freemason's Lodge sponsored one for the town's Boy and Girl Scout troops.
I made a few reusable mortar tubes from DOM schedule 40 steel pipe welded to a base plate. Sold them when we moved, were going to a more densely populated area in Ohio.