Even though it is full of the usual anti-fireworks crapola we hear every year around this time – the same anti-fireworks propaganda that has been ruining the holiday and the country ever since I was in the single-digit age range – I wanted to note the NYT‘s “A History of Fireworks Mayhem on the Fourth of July” because:
- It starts off with the S.S. Kresge disaster in Cleveland.
- It quotes John Stark Bellamy II.
- And it cites They Died Crawling. As I say every time this comes up, I think that’s one of the best book titles ever, right up there with Coffin’s Got the Dead Guy on the Inside.