The cost of fireworks went up 11% this year, 34% last year, 100% in the last 8 years.
We raise our money for the July 3rd and Labor Day Fireworks and Boulevard Concerts together. The July 3rd Fireworks Display is the City’s Display, we just do the coordinating, etc. The Labor Day Display is the Fireworks Committee’s Display.
The cost for each of the Concerts is $5,000. The cost for each of the Fireworks Displays this year is $30,000. So, in total we need $70,000. That doesn’t include the phenomenal support we get at no charge from the DPW, Fire and Police Departments, Harbormaster, and the US Coast Guard.
The Independence Day Display has been around since at least 1880, maybe sooner, as shown in Winslow Homer’s famous fireworks painting of Fireworks Over Gloucester Harbor, July 4, 1880. He lived on Ten Pound Island that year and painted it looking across towards Stage Fort Park.
All donations can be sent to The Gloucester Fund via Paypal or Venmo. Links below. For those attending the concert, there will be QR codes at the door for venmo and a cash option as well.
Paypal: The Gloucester Fund, Inc
Venmo: @TheGloucesterFund
Checks can be made out to The Gloucester Fund Inc. and handed in at the door or mailed to 45 Middle St, Gloucester, MA 01930 with “FIREWORKS” in the memo
Good Morning Gloucester 