I Saw Sparks: Why Fireworks In Boston Are Better Than New York
The trick is to get as far away from them as possible.
Every Fourth of July, a barge loaded with fireworks–the most expensive, technologically advanced pyrotechnic display that money can buy–weighs anchor in the Charles River, the small snake of water that separates Boston and Cambridge before it bleeds into the Atlantic. It waits between the Longfellow Bridge, the one curving over the Charles like a brick-laid set of salt and pepper shakers lined up all in a row, and the Harvard Bridge, the longer of the two that hoists Mass Ave.–the thoroughfare connecting the two cities–above passing rowers and sailboats.