Displaying the Displays

    Happy Fourth of July! I plan to celebrate the day by floating in the pool, getting some sun, feasting on steaks from the grill, and then it’s off to the riverside to watch the fireworks.
    For those of you who also can not wait for the festivities to begin, here are fireworks displays from the past. I’ve mentioned these videos before, but now they’ve been re-encoded to QuickTime. I also spent the last few days digging through the archives to make sure every grand finale I taped has been digitized and made available.

1998
• Fourth of July — (fireworks from the air, all along the Eastern seaboard: MP4 | OGV.
• Dearborn Homecoming: MP4 | OGV

1999
• Trenton Fourth of July — (wasn’t quite prepared with the camera and missed a lot: MP4 | OGV

2000
• Trenton Fourth of July: MP4 | OGV
• Dearborn Homecoming: MP4 | OGV

2001: The Year of the Fake Endings
• Trenton Fourth of July: MP4 | OGV
• Dearborn Homecoming: MP4 | OGV

2002
• Trenton Fourth of July: YouTube
• Dearborn Homecoming: MP4 | OGV

2003
• Trenton Fourth of July: YouTube
• Dearborn Homecoming — (Oops! I had camera trouble, and had to take photographs instead)

2004
• Trenton Fourth of July: MP4 | OGV
• Dearborn Homecoming — (see below)

    And here are some bonus videos I shot, of an equally patriotic nature (and which I’ve also linked to before):

• Lee Greenwood singing “God Bless the USA” at the Dearborn 2002 Homecoming: MP4 | OGV
• Charlie Daniels at the 2004 Dearborn Homecoming (which also contains their 2004 grand finale): MP4 | OGV

    Hope you enjoy them all. They might prove useful in synching up your “Ooo”s and “Aaah”s for later tonight.