Thunder Over Louisville is the reason a lot of people in this city have a very high bar for anything that happens in the sky. It opens the Kentucky Derby Festival every April, it pairs an all-day air show with a fireworks display launched from barges and from the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, and […]
Maine’s event calendar is not a year. It is July and August, plus a handful of good evenings on either side. Rockland triples in size for the Maine Lobster Festival in early August. Boothbay Harbor runs Windjammer Days in June, Yarmouth has its Clam Festival in July, and nearly every harbor town between Kittery and […]
Maryland is organized by the Chesapeake Bay, and the bay does not just shape the geography, it splits the state into markets that have almost nothing to do with each other. The Western Shore runs from the Baltimore metro down through Annapolis and the Washington suburbs: dense, affluent, heavily regulated airspace. The Eastern Shore is […]
Massachusetts is a small state with an unusual problem: almost every place worth putting a show is either three hundred years old, under Logan’s airspace, on the water, or all three. The town commons that look perfect in photographs were laid out for grazing cattle in the 1600s and are ringed by wood frame houses […]
Memphis has an airspace situation that exists almost nowhere else in the country, and it is worth understanding before you pick a date. Memphis International is a Class B airport – the only one in Tennessee – and it did not earn that classification from passenger traffic. It earned it from freight. The FedEx superhub […]