Credit: Brad Gregg According to data collected from Foursquare, our love affair with explosives — namely fireworks — as well as our outstanding park and parade attendance on the Fourth of July makes Oklahoma City the second most patriotic city in the nation, just behind Knoxville, Tenn. The list was compiled based on spikes […]
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’Crack down
Credit: Brad Gregg But leave it to the Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology to put a stop to all our fun. Since July is Fireworks Eye Safety Awareness Month (did you get our card?), the OAO would like to remind us that — get this — fireworks are dangerous. Who knew? Well, probably all the kids […]
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Set it off
Does it have to do with family, food or fireworks? My bet is that it involves at least one of those three, and maybe all of them. For me, the most memorable Independence Days have involved fireworks. When I was about 10, I clearly remember my two older, ornery cousins wearing blue-and-white-striped denim shorts and […]