THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2025

Question: Who chronicled a mishap-filled 1879 fireworks show on Hayden Butte in his 1957 book, Story of Tempe?

Answer: John Myers Myers. A paragraph detailing the event reads, “Nobody was afterward quite clear as to what happened. … At all events there were loud explosions, the yells of men scrambling for cover and skyrockets going every place but up in the sky …“