Stephen Yeargin

I took a bit of video from last night’s fireworks display over Riverfront Park. The Tennessean estimated that more than 100,000 people came to the event this year, and I am curious how they even began to come up with a final attendance. The crowds stretched all the way up to Third Avenue on the west bank and deep into the parking lot at LP Field on the east. Metro Police shuffled people off the east side of the Gateway Bridge about an hour before the display, presumably out of safety concerns.

We had given thought to riding the Music City Star commuter train from Lebenon to downtown (mostly for the experience, as is a bit out of our way living on the north side). Looks like in hindsight it was a good decision not to go that route. Samantha and I started crafting letters to the mayor and councilmen after it took us nearly an hour to leave, and we witnessed one car accident by impatient drivers.