[Calvin Locke]

Fireworks. Might I suggest tracking down an mp3 of one of Jean
Shepherd's 4th of July readings of his short story Ludlow
Kissel and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back.

[raccoonradio]

I’ve got 3 collections of his works but that one isn’t in them, I think, but years ago a friend brought over a videotape of a special called the Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters.

Some of his stuff turns up on YouTube (Shep’s piece about beer from J. Shepherd’s America, for example)

I have
—4 albums by Shep (dubbed on audiocass.)
—DVDs of A Christmas Story and My Summer Story (”sequel”)
—Books: bio of Shep by Eugene Bergmann, A Christmas Story,
Wanda Hickey, Fistful of Fig Newtons