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Show Notes
Though fireworks in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor are cancelled for this year, there will still be a celebration of light!
The new Domino Sugars Sign, restored to all its 70-foot-by-120-foot glory, will be turned on for the first time. We hear some reasons Baltimoreans love it so:
“We’re getting married in two months, and our reception is at the Baltimore Museum of Industry, and we picked that because the Domino Sugar sign will illuminate the dance floor.”
Plus a conversation with pyrotechnic expert John Conkling, who describes how fireworks work ... and why we love them:
“I think it’s something really just psychologically deep in the human soul, to see the sky explode in color, noise, light …”
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