BING

Bing! Bang! Boom! Snap! Crackle! Pop! Zing!

Perhaps sounds at your breakfast table, but this is the season of the firework. The big bang. The loud boom. The glow in the dark and the puff of smoke on the sidewalk.

We’d like to pay homage to those little “chicken screechers” and M98’s by celebrating the light and sound of the firework in print.

In the next three weeks, we look forward to the hot day loaded with red, white and blue, chilled down by cool beverages and baked by hot grills in a three-part series that will light up your knowledge of fireworks.

If you look up bing in the dictionary, y...