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Chesapeake Fourths
photo courtesy of Zambelli Fireworks
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, lit up by the pyrotechnics of Zambelli Fireworks. Throughout Chesapeake Country this Independence Weekend, we’ll celebrate the one holiday when it’s actually encouraged to play with fire.

Chesapeake Fourths
There’s something innately magical about fireworks. Shoot them off over the water, and the magic doubles. This Fourth — plus the third and fifth — the magic shines all over Chesapeake Country.

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  by James Clemenko
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  by Gary Pendleton
• Way Downstream
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Gutting Smart Growth a Dumb Idea	Beginner’s Luck by Alan Doelp
In Deale, Will a Jetty Open the Floodgates?	Many of Our Waters Will Be Suffocating Death Zones this Summer
A Fourth First; Nowadays Crossing the Bay is Drudgery; Once It Was Adventure by Alice Butler Bradshaw	Fireworks by April Falcon Doss and Lauren Silver