Monday, July 9, 2012

50th annual Bay City fireworks display goes out with a bang, wows crowd


2012 Bay City Fireworks Festival finale
A lot can change in 50 years. In the five decades since Bay City's inaugural Fourth of July fireworks display, a small show with a smattering of hand-lit fireworks transformed into a three day festival, complete with booze, food, music and family activities. With a focus on the fireworks that started it all, the festival has thrived with community support, raising funds each year to continue the tradition. Festival organizers and volunteers commemorated the show's long history in the best way it knew how — by shooting off a 50-minute fireworks display to a variety of movie themes and songs with 50,000 separate fireworks shells Saturday night.


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