Article by Sternberg-Tendys Wendy
We all know about the Waterford Crystal ball dropped in Times Square, New York, for New Year’s eve, but what about dropping the lit d strawberry from Hilton Harrisburg and Towers, in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania?Then there is the 20 foot, 600 pound walleye (fish)that drops from the sky in Port Clinton, or the live possum dropped in a cage in Brasstown, North Carolina. People in Plymouth enjoy the drop of a giant crab.
In Raleigh, North Carolina they drop a massive copper acorn and a giant gumbo pot is {{[the New Year celebration drop in Mississippi. |dropped in the Mississippi to celebrate the incoming year.}}}
A 2007 sprint racing car is dropped 130 feet, in Port Royal, but in Carlisle, Pennsylvania they drop an Indy car.Lancaster, Pennsylvania, likes to drop a red rose at a family, non – alcoholic night of celebration, but it is a white rose in York.
Atlanta drops an 800 pound peach, while Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania chooses to celebrate with a 25 pound marshmallow candy. A huge cheese takes the plunge in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Along in Lebanon, Pennsylvania you get to see a 7 ? foot edible bologna fall, before it is handed out to local charities. In Elmore, Ohio they drop an 18 foot sausage from the sky and in Mount Olive, North Carolina a three foot high glowing pickle descends.
If you’re thirsty, call into Bartlesville, Oklahoma to witness a huge olive being dropped from Price Tower, into a martini glass.
Maybe dropping food and edibles is not to your taste, but you may prefer to witness a pirate ‘wench’ being plunged seventy foot from a schooner in the Key West Harbor, Florida, or the Drag Queen Sushi, dropped in her glittering six foot high heeled shoe.
When you have had enough of all this dropping and plunging, you might be entertained by the New Year’s panty drop. However, they didn’t give us a location for this one, which is probably just as well, as it could get a bit breezy.For rest of us we will simply have to settle for the usual fireworks, bonfire and maybe a balloon drop or two. Either way, enjoy a great New Year’s eve and let’s all hope and pray that 2009 has better things for all of us.
Postscript:The list of drops doesn’t stop with the above. There are a total of 19 states in the US, with Pennsylvania top of the list, through a grand total of 36 cities and towns with dropping celebrations for New Year’s eve. There is still no clear explanation as to where all this dropping the last few seconds of New Year’s eve, originated, except for the ball starting in Times Square in 1907.
The list of articles dropped include:
* Anchor, Antique trunk and Apple,* Bag of potato chips, Beach ball, Bottle of Yuengling beer, Boasted chicken, * Canal boat, Carp, cigar, Cigar held by a lion, Coal, Conch shell, Cow, * Ford Edge, Frog, Goat, * Hard hat, Hershey Kiss, Hog, Huckleberry,* Indy car, * Lollipop, * M&M, Moravian star, Mossbunker fish, * Nugget, * Orange, * Pear, Pine cone, Ping pong balls, Planet earth, Pretzel,* Red rose, * Sardine, Sled, Sphoctogon, Spring, Star, Steamroller, Sunburst,* Ukulele, * Wildcat, Wooden duck, Wrench
Maybe you could begin your very own drop in your neighbourhood. I understand there is a midnight parachute drop to watch the fireworks.
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