Fireworks
Since its inception the Festival has been closed with a firework display, attracting up to 10,000 attendees. For the first two decades or so these were held with the spectators arrayed around Stowe Pool. Health and Safety concerns from nearby residents forced a switch to Beacon Park in the early 2000s, where the display remains to this day.
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Famous quotes containing the word fireworks:
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“Always and last, before the final ring
When all the fireworks blare, begins
A tom-tom scrimmage with a somewhere violin,
Some cheapest echo of them all—begins.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)