The smiling, nostalgic face of Kansas fireworks: ‘I’m still amazed’

The smiling, nostalgic face of Kansas fireworks: ‘I’m still amazed’

Eddie Shay’s face has been added to Mount Rushmore on a T-shirt sold at the Gardner location of Eddie’s Fireworks owned by Eddie’s son Adam. (Eric Thomas for Kansas Reflector)If you drive up to a fireworks tent in eastern Kansas this week, the caricatured face of Eddie Shay might welcome you on a banner.  “EDDIE’S FIREWORKS,” the sign will read. “LIGHTING WICKS SINCE ‘76.” “I was lighting wicks way before that,” Shay says. However, it was 49 yea…