‘How ’bout this one?’
Alvin Farley shows his father, Thomas Farley, a firework he picked up off the shelf Monday at the Fireworks Outlet just outside of Athens on Alabama 72. Despite the prospect of thunderstorms, the fireworks establishment had steady business as people searched for explosives to celebrate the arrival of 2019. Fireworks are illegal within the city limits of Athens, but may be detonated in unincorporated Limestone County.