The Fourth of July celebrations are different in rural America
than in the urban areas of the country. They
are a lot less packaged and polished and a lot more personal. For one thing both homes and businesses alike
get into decorating with red white and blue on a par with Christmas in the big
cities.
Then there are the parades.
Each little town has its own celebration, but rather than competing, the
townships cooperate with one another to stagger their events so people can
attend most of them, and still make it home in time to watch the nationally
televised pictures of the firework shows in Boston,
NY and Washington
DC..
We started the day with The Pawleys Island Parade at 10
am. It begins on the South Causeway with
the local fire trucks leading a loop drive around the entire Island. Anyone can register to get into the parade
but the Islands narrow streets and turn-arounds
limit the float size. The end result is
a mixture of uninhibited exuberance and fun.
Our next stop was Murrells Inlet for an equally lively boat
parade. The Inlet anchors the southern
end of the Myrtle Beach
tourist area and has a long board walk which is great for watching the parade. For our part, we enjoyed the parade from the out-of-door patio of one of the
local restaurants.
In the early evening we hopped over to Georgetown for a free
concert held on the lawn of one of the historic mansion/museums. It was an interesting mixture of JP Souza
marches and Chorale renditions of Fiddler on the roof. This was followed by fireworks over the Winyah Bay in Georgetown
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