What’s so Special About a Holiday in July?

Chacos: What’s so special about a holiday in July?

The Fourth of July is the only holiday I tolerate being hot and sweaty from sunrise to sunset because there’s the promise of fireworks at its conclusion. The combination of gunpowder and burning chemicals takes me back to the shore of the Long Island Sound, where my brother and I “oohed” and “aahed” at the firework display put on from the boats strategically placed out on the water. My grandmother would line the kids up by the edge of the beach …

What’s so special about a holiday in July?

The Fourth of July is the only holiday I tolerate being hot and sweaty from sunrise to sunset because there’s the promise of fireworks at its conclusion. The combination of gunpowder and burning chemicals takes me back to the shore of the Long Island Sound, where my brother and I “oohed” and “aahed” at the firework display put on from the boats strategically placed out on the water. My grandmother would line the kids up by the edge of the beach …