We spent the night of the Fourth in North Canton, Ohio. I discovered that the local fireworks show was taking place in a park about two miles from our Best Western Motel. We walked across the street to a Cracker Barrel parking lot to look for a vantage point, but a ridge blocked our view and the mosquitoes were out. We got in the car and headed in the general direction of the park. Several blocks away we began seeing people on lawn chairs in parking lots along the road. We found a handicapped spot in a funeral home parking lot just as the show began and settled in to watch through the windshield.
It was the most pathetic fireworks show I’ve seen in a very long time. Here’s a time-lapse of about a quarter of the show.
We ate breakfast the next morning at a local Einstein Bros. near the motel, then hung out in our room until 11:00. On the Internet, I found a place called Taggerts Ice Cream Parlor in Canton. It sounded good, and we wanted to go. As this was our only opportunity …
I had a simple, but excellent, grilled-cheese sandwich with coleslaw. And a hot fudge sundae for dessert. Everything was great, but my favorite part was the restaurant itself. It looked like it hadn’t been updated a bit since the 1940s.