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what do they do to ring in the New Year where you are?

Pennsylvanians have a lot of funny traditions to mark the big event and maybe claim their fame with a 5 second spot on local TV...... Here's some of my faves..

In Dillsburg they drop a 300 pound Pickle....get it? Pickle...DILLsburg??
The city of Lebanon drops a 100 pound roll of bologna (Lebanon Bologna is a regional favorite lunch meat....think smokey and sweet). Gotta be local to get that one.
Hershey, home of America's favorite chocolate bar, they raise a giant Hershey Kiss...see what they did there???
Gettysburg is starting a new tradition with an oversized stove pipe hat....think Abraham Lincoln...
Mechanicsburg drops a wrench
Harrisburg, the state capital, does something (raises or lowers that is), with a giant strawberry....I still haven't figured that one out other than it happens next to the capital complex on an area called Strawberry Square. Why? Idunno!
Scranton drops a block of coal...maybe they should drop a box of Dunder-Mifflin paper instead?
There are a few other less imaginative entries but nevertheless, goofy local imitations of the long standing Time Square tradition. So what about where you are? Anything with beer?
 
Ward Chillington said:
what do they do to ring in the New Year where you are?

Pennsylvanians have a lot of funny traditions to mark the big event and maybe claim their fame with a 5 second spot on local TV...... Here's some of my faves..

In Dillsburg they drop a 300 pound Pickle....get it? Pickle...DILLsburg??
The city of Lebanon drops a 100 pound roll of bologna (Lebanon Bologna is a regional favorite lunch meat....think smokey and sweet). Gotta be local to get that one.
Hershey, home of America's favorite chocolate bar, they raise a giant Hershey Kiss...see what they did there???
Gettysburg is starting a new tradition with an oversized stove pipe hat....think Abraham Lincoln...
Mechanicsburg drops a wrench
Harrisburg, the state capital, does something (raises or lowers that is), with a giant strawberry....I still haven't figured that one out other than it happens next to the capital complex on an area called Strawberry Square. Why? Idunno!
Scranton drops a block of coal...maybe they should drop a box of Dunder-Mifflin paper instead?
There are a few other less imaginative entries but nevertheless, goofy local imitations of the long standing Time Square tradition. So what about where you are? Anything with beer?
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I don't know if it's as good, but boarshead makes a lebanon that is pretty good.

Around here they just blow off fireworks
 
Yeah, I heard plenty of gunshots, banging of pots and pans, as well as whooping and hollering last night. It was actually kind of tame in comparison to where I used to live. In the city where I grew up (Santa Ana, CA) I’m sure my dad heard enough gunfire to think he was in a war zone.
 
A few fireworks here at midnight, lasted a half hour or so. Not terribly noisy.

Not at all like 4th of July here, when it starts a week before and lasts until the end of summer when the kiddies go back to school.
 
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