Fireworks are for the Fourth....

The case against using fireworks in the northwoods is pretty strong. Think about it.

-Fireworks can maim you or your children
-Fireworks disturb wildlife.
-Fireworks can cause forest fires.
-Fireworks disturb the people who live or visit the northwoods for peace and quiet.

I have another reason to dislike fireworks-they are a defense against the quiet. I think we are terrified of whatever quiet is left in the world. We want to fill it up with ourselves, a blanket of noise against....what?


"Don't mess with the Fourth", a relative tells me. So I say, OK-lets have fireworks on the weekend of the fourth. But then let the north go back to being the north.