Here, they have their annual display at the ball fields/track a block behind my house. We used to be able to watch them from out back porch, but too many trees have gotten taller in the last 15 years and my neighbors didn't find it particularly patriotic when they found me in their yards on the Third, chainsaw in-hand. So now, we walk down there like everyone else.
I use the occasion to promote the business. We'll literally have several thousand people walking the street in front of my business tonight on their way down and on their way back from the show tonight, so we decorate the columns in front of the house with red stripes and hang flag banners, etc. And I don't know how it started, but we usually plan being "close to the gate" so when things end, we get back here quick, make root beer floats and "people watch" on the front porch. It's become a bit of a tradition at this point I guess.
