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See for full detour information.ĭue to the large crowds and loud noise associated with the Fireworks Celebration, the City recommends that attendees leave pets at home and not bring unnecessary bags or backpacks.
Access for abutters only from 4 to 6 p.m. No parking from Ball Square to Magoun Square, 4 p.m. No parking from Cedar Street to Charles E. To ensure public safety and pedestrian access to events, traffic and parking restrictions will be in place as follows: While fireworks attendees are not required to wear masks, anyone who is not fully vaccinated is advised to wear one whenever they are in a crowd. Fireworks will begin at approximately 9:15 p.m. Live entertainment at Trum Field will begin at 6:30 p.m.with DJ Brother Cleve playing pop, soul, funk, and other classic tunes followed by Booty Vortex taking the stage at 8 p.m. SOMERVILLE, MA – The City of Somerville will host its annual Fourth of July Fireworks Celebration at Trum Field on Wednesday, June 30 (rain date July 1). Virgil, Morgan and Holliday were wounded but recovered.Īnd Wyatt Earp, though he wasn't the fastest gun in the fight, came out without a scratch.DJ Brother Cleve and Booty Vortex Will Provide Pre-Fireworks Entertainment In the end - the fight lasted only 30 seconds or so, with at least 20 shots being fired - Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers died. "In the meantime, Billy Clanton gets off the first shot. He's older, and he's probably not going to rush his shot,'" Trimble says. "Wyatt thought, 'I better take Frank, because he's more dangerous. While Earp was doing his split-second assessing, young Billy Clanton - he was only 18 or 19 at the time - saw what he thought was an opening and took his shot. "His mind calculated - he was kind of like a quarterback when the defense moves on you, and you have to calculate, 'What's my backup plan, here?' - and not everybody really can do that, especially when there's live rounds coming at you," says Marshall Trimble, Arizona's official state historian.
And that's when Wyatt Earp stepped into Western lore. So when they went to arrest the Cowboys at about 3 p.m., they expected the Cowboys to be unarmed. They had ordered the Cowboys to give up their guns earlier in the day, warning them with a pistol-whipping at the hands of Wyatt. The Earps weren't really expecting a gunfight. That afternoon, Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Wyatt's friend John Henry "Doc" Holliday faced off against a rowdy group of outlaws known as the Cowboys Billy Claiborne, brothers Ike and Billy Clanton, and brother Frank and Tom McLaury. And on that day, Earp was not the fastest gunslinger in town. Nothing proved Earp's mettle more than the tumultuous gunfight near the O.K. In fact, the faster draw generally misses, and therefore gets killed." "When it comes to gunfights, the idea is to stay alive, not necessarily draw fast. But they would not have understood if you'd have said, 'Who's fastest with a gun?' "Having said that, there was this sense of a reputation of dangerous men with a gun. "Anything that has created this myth of the fast draw is a byproduct of entertainment," says Jim Dunham, the director of special projects and historian at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
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Corral, with a bunch of men unloading at each other all at once, than a mano-a-mano showdown in the middle of town.Īnd in a close-range free-for-all, speed is not all it's cracked up to be. But they were just as apt to be like the O.K. It's " High Noon." It's " Gunfight at the O.K. The well-worn picture we have of a Wild West gunfight - a tension-filled standoff in the middle of a dusty street, often at high noon, won invariably by the man who unholsters his gun more quickly than his opponent - is largely fiction.
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