July 5, 2021
Jordan Davis always loved the baseball games, and the firework shows after them on Independence Day. He says they’d go to Shreveport Captains games, or they’d barbecue and light off fireworks. And there were a few Fourths where they’d take the boat out and watch the downtown fireworks from that.
Josh Turner remembers having fireworks “wars” with his family. They’d all try to outdo each other, especially on his dad’s side, but Josh tells us Daddy was smarter than the rest; while they were all spending gobs of money to put on the biggest, baddest firework shows, his Dad would spend $25 and let everyone else go all out.
Keith Urban gives us an Aussie’s perspective of patriotism. “It’s common shared beliefs and identity. And I think at its core, it’s an incredibly strengthening, vital thing for our people to have,” he says. “And it’s particularly gratifying in the midst of so much separating of ideas that it can get fractious. And it’s kind of nice that a sense of patriotism, can remind everybody of the unity.”
A local celebrity tells us about his family traditions on the Fourth… You may have heard of him, and maybe even know him well enough to have been part of his family’s festivities. It’s none other than Easton Corbin! The Corbins always had cookouts and his uncle would drive from Tallahassee to bring the “really good” fireworks down from Alabama to his Grandma’s house in Trenton where he and his cousin would shoot them off all day.