The Fourth of July falls on Thursday this year, and festivities include fireworks on Portland’s Eastern Promenade. In this photo, which ran in the Portland Press Herald on July 4, 1938, several kids are making their own Independence Day fun with a giant firecracker on Reynolds Street in South Portland. Pictured left to right are Francis Malia, Barbara Wilson, Ruth Malia, Thomas Davis, Marian Larochelle and Gardiner Williams. Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives