North End Community Fireworks Display

This happened all over the city, I assume, but I had the special opportunity of observing part of the North End’s unofficial fireworks display last night. This Fourth of July celebration was going on concurrent to the Taste of Minnesota demonstration. Neighbors on both sides of Rice Street were lighting the sky with an amazing collection glaring rockets and other works of pyrotechnical art. More seemed to come from west of Rice than east, but that is likely because the inhabitants of the condominiums between Jackson and Sylvan south of Magnolia don’t participate much. One of the disadvantages of this kind of varied-site display is that one does not know where the next blast is coming from and misses the upgoing parabola of the display.

And, as far as I can tell, this whole display neither received any public subsidy nor charged admission.