Expect to see 60-70 meteors per hour, we can even get lucky enough to catch up to 200 meteors an hour like we did in 2016 hopefully it's an "outburst year". August 11-13 are the nights that you should be staring at the sky according to Cooke.
Serendipity is a wonderful thing. We just found out this morning that Paul McCartney will be kicking off his U.S. tour at the CenturyLink in July. Also this morning, I was reading the Shreveport Times where they had a story about the events the local Astronomical Society is planning for National Astronomy Day 2017...