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This weekend, many of us will be enjoying fireworks as we celebrate the Fourth of July. The Takeaway’s next guest, author Bill Gurstelle, believes that the best fireworks are the ones you make at home.
This weekend, many of us will be enjoying fireworks as we celebrate the Fourth of July ?from the safety of a public park with professionals handling all those explosives. But our guest Bill Gurstelle believes that the best fireworks are the ones you make at home. He’s the author of Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously and Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices.