Spent Sunday morning DOWN A BLUFFTON FIREWORKS RABBIT HOLE!
I guess being around all those kids yesterday at Sawyer's birthday party may have inspired me but I woke up this morning thinking about when I was a boy and blew up snuff cans behind the old chinaberry tree in Grandpa and Grandma Belcher's house in Bluffton. Bluffton, Georgia - Wikipedia
We bought the fireworks at Mansfield Oil out on Highway 27.
It was the only store left open in Bluffton. We bought M-80s, cherry bombs, firecrackers and ninja chasers there. It was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mansfield. James Russell Mansfield (1906-1974) - Find a Grave Memorial
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Mr. Mansfield died in 1974 and his son took over. John Earl Mansfield Sr. (1932-2018) - Find a Grave Memorial
During that second bust, the cops arrested a guy from Dothan just for having a pack of firecrackers in his pocket he'd bought at Mansfield's a few moments earlier.
Mr. Mansfield's 1974 death was for the best because the next year four people were murdered in his store.
