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Picture Connecticut: Fireworks Shows, Behind the Scenes
It takes an effort to get those fireworks displays ready.
![Preparations for fireworks displays, like the one in Vernon each year, are complicated.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/103600/20240628/084333/styles/patch_image/public/fireworks-2023-stash-___28080906537.jpg)
CONNECTICUT — As fireworks venues across the state are preparing for the Fourth of July weekend, so are the outfits that shoot off the traditional displays.
But what does it take? It encompasses nearly an entire day of laying charges and connecting wires and organizing sequences .... all under strict rules.
Pictured is a day during a past season atop Fox Hill at Vernon's Henry Park. It is one of the largest displays in North Central Connecticut.
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And ... Just how many are shot off in one show? Try to count:
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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present.
Here are past images:
2024
- A Riverside Stroll, Hockanum River
- The 29th Connecticut Monument, New Haven
- Hangin' in the Hangar, Windsor Locks
- The Little Drummer Boy, Bridgeport
- The 14th Connecticut, Gettysburg
- A sculpture for a Famous Sculptor, West Hartford
- The Attack of the Flamingos, anywhere
- Historic Tower Turns Red, Vernon
- Eagle Rock, Hebron
- The Cirque, Hartford
- The Amerbelle Spillway, Rockville
- The ECSU Gallery, Willimantic
- Great Captain Island, Greenwich
- Bobblehead Madness, Storrs
- Bobby Sands/Hunger Strike Memorial, Hartford
- Mr. Jonathan Goes To Hartford, Hartford
- The Latest Discount Airline, New Haven
- State Groundhog Gets Arrested, Manchester
- Historic Wartime Sutures, Willington
- Big Business Week In CT, statewide
- The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center Guilford
- Main Street at night, Middletown
- The Hide-and-Seek Bear, Tolland
- The MLK Mural, Manchester
- The Mount Southington Summit, Southington
2023
- All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
- Riverside Igloos, Milford
- The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
- The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
- Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
- UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
- The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
- The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
- The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
- The Doughboy, East Hartford
- The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
- The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
- The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
- The Notch, Granby
- The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
- Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
- Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
- Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
- Fogarea, New Haven County
- Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
- Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
- The first dentist, Windsor
- The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
- The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
- The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
- The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
- The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
- The Underground Railroad, Unionville
- The cow carousel, Ellington
- Charles Island, Milford
- State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
- Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
- The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
- Agent Orange Monument, Andover
- The Sunken Garden, Farmington
- Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
- The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
- Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester
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