Little Flash, Much Boom

This Fourth of July will be the first in seventy-six years without the presence of George Plimpton as our Laureate Pyrotechnique I shall not attempt to match the brilliance of his many and varied eulogists. see, e.g. op. cit. infra (that is in his honor). Plimpton was many, many things but none were as important to him as being regarded as an afficiando and historian of the art of fireworks. He counted the Gruccis as intimates and wrote about their craft with his customary gusto. A massive hole near Jupiter Florida still exists as testament to the fact that he usually demanded to know a subject before he wrote about it. He counted as one of each year's highlights the staging of his own Fourth of July display for his family and friends off his Long Island Home. href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2089012/">Amateur Night on 72nd Street - George Plimpton ran the Paris Review, played with the Detroit Lions, wrote books, and interviewed Hemingway. As told to�Amanda�Fortini�and Meghan�O'Rourke