4th of July Celebrations
There will be fireworks displays all over the country next Wednesday as the U.S. celebrates Independence Day, but some of the best 4th of July celebrations can be found in the cities that gave birth to the nation: Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
Boston was home to the incendiary Sons of Liberty, who with events like the famed Boston Tea Party, helped ignite the American Revolution in the first place. So it is hardly surprising that pyrotechnics continue here. The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will feature the "1812 Overture" performed (as usual) with real canons and church bells, capped off by what organizers promise will be "the largest and most complex Boston Fourth of July pyrotechnic display to date" with more than 20 thousand pounds of explosives and "ten-inch diameter shells that will climb to 1500 feet - nearly one and a half times the height of the Hancock Tower."
In New York, where major Revolutionary War battles like those in Brooklyn Heights and Fort Washington took place, Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks is the place to be for the year's best show of spectacular explosions. The 2007 edition of this annual extravaganza will feature more than 120,000 bursts of pyrotechnic color. The show will get underway on July 4th at 9 pm and is visible for free from almost any unobstructed view of the East River in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed and first read, is celebrating the 4th with a week-long festival dubbed "Welcome America" which will wrap up with a Hall & Oates concert and a firework display on the steps of the Art Museum.
Boston was home to the incendiary Sons of Liberty, who with events like the famed Boston Tea Party, helped ignite the American Revolution in the first place. So it is hardly surprising that pyrotechnics continue here. The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will feature the "1812 Overture" performed (as usual) with real canons and church bells, capped off by what organizers promise will be "the largest and most complex Boston Fourth of July pyrotechnic display to date" with more than 20 thousand pounds of explosives and "ten-inch diameter shells that will climb to 1500 feet - nearly one and a half times the height of the Hancock Tower."
In New York, where major Revolutionary War battles like those in Brooklyn Heights and Fort Washington took place, Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks is the place to be for the year's best show of spectacular explosions. The 2007 edition of this annual extravaganza will feature more than 120,000 bursts of pyrotechnic color. The show will get underway on July 4th at 9 pm and is visible for free from almost any unobstructed view of the East River in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed and first read, is celebrating the 4th with a week-long festival dubbed "Welcome America" which will wrap up with a Hall & Oates concert and a firework display on the steps of the Art Museum.
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