I used to like the forth. It was a fun day that started with parades. My cousins and I would wear our 6 shooters with fresh rolls of caps to the parade and shoot them in the air. Must have bothered the horses in the parade but they were well trained. Then we’d have a picnic lunch at home with aunts, uncles and cousins. Then after dark we’d go to the fireworks. But now there’s no parade here. The one in the other towns have no horses and I don’t think kids are allowed to have cap guns. They moved the fireworks downtown where theirs no parking. I don’t know it seems the forth changed in the 80’s to just an excuse for adults to act out and get drunk. I don’t go near the crowds anymore. I don’t trust others to be sober so I don’t want to be on the road. I just stay home and yell at kids to “get off the lawn”