Peeps, Impersonators and Possums – 50 Quirky New Year’s Celebrations

Everyone knows about the famous ball that drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, but just in case you can’t get to New York or are looking for something a bit zanier, here are 50 quirky things that are dropped by cities across the US. Most have some relationship to the locale, but a couple are just because someone started it and it became tradition. In aggregating this list, I couldn’t help but notice that Pennsylvania seems to have more New Year’s spirit than many other states. Does your hometown drop anything unusual at the stroke of the New Year?

1. Atlanta, GA – an 8 foot round, 800 pound foam and fiberglass peach
2. Bethlehem, PA – an 85 pound glowing fiberglass resin Peep
3. Blain, PA – a cow
4. Brasstown, NC – a live possum (released unharmed after the descent)
5. Dillsburg, PA – a 6 foot paper mache pickle
6. Duncannon, PA – a 10 foot sled
7. Easton, MD – an oversized model of a blue crab
8. Eastport, ME – a sardine
9. Elizabethtown, PA – M&Ms
10. Elmore, OH – a sausage
11. Falmouth, PA – a goat
12. Fayetteville, AR – a hog
13. Flagstaff, AZ – a 6 foot, 70 pound pine cone
14. Fredericksburg, VA – A chicken wire pear covered in yellow tape
15. Frogtown, PA – a frog (of course!)
16. Gratz, PA – a wildcat
17. Harrisburg, PA – a large strawberry
18. Hershey, PA – a giant Hershey kiss (raised)
19. Houston, TX – a star representing the Lone star state (raised)
20. Hummelstown, PA – a lollipop
21. Key West, FL – a live pirate wench, a giant conch shell, and a female impersonator named Sushi
22. Lancaster, PA – a red rose (raised)
23. Lebanon, PA – a 12 foot long, 200 pound stick of bologna
24. Lewistown, PA – a bag of potato chips
25. Lititz, PA – a pretzel
26. Liverpool, PA – a canal boat
27. Manhattan, KS – an apple
28. Manheim, PA – an orb
29. Mechanicsburg, PA – a wrench
30. Memphis, TN – a brightly lit Gibson Les Paul guitar
31. Miami, FL – an orange
32. New Bloomfield, PA – a huckleberry
33. New Orleans, LA – recently a pot of gumbo, but this year changing to a 9 foot tall gold fleur-de-lis
34. New Oxford, PA – an antique trunk
35. New York City, NY – the iconic 11,875 pound Waterford crystal ball
36. Mobile, AL – a 12 foot round Moon Pie
37. Mount Olive, NC – a pickle (oh, the irony!)
38. Pensacola, FL – a 13 foot tall illuminated Pelican with a 17 foot wingspan
39. Pittsburgh, PA – a globe
40. Plymouth, WI – an 80 pound cheese wedge
41. Port Clinton, OH – 19 foot, 60 pound fiberglass Walleye fish
42. Pottsville, PA – a Yuengling Beer bottle
43. Raleigh, NC – a 10 foot tall, 1250 pound acorn
44. Red Lion, PA – a cigar (raised)
45. Seattle, WA – the Space Needle elevator (raised)
46. Seven Valleys, PA – a chicken
47. Shippensburg, PA – an anchor
48. Steelton, PA – a steamroller
49. Terre Haute, IN – watermelons
50. York, PA – a white rose

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