Denison Forum
Dr. Jim Denison
Around a million people packed into New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve to watch the “ball drop” usher in 2024, while an estimated audience of one billion (my wife and I included) watched from home. The ball, which was twelve feet in diameter and weighed twelve tons, featured a new design this year based on the bow tie shape of the actual Times Square.
This was not the only such event around the country, however. Mobile, Alabama, dropped a six-hundred-pound electric MoonPie as onlookers ate the world’s largest MoonPie cake. Boise, Idaho, dropped a giant potato, while Las Cruces, New Mexico, dropped a nineteen-foot chrome chile and Raleigh, North Carolina, dropped a ten-foot-tall copper and steel acorn.
My favorite such event took place in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where a ball of bologna was used to celebrate the new year. My least favorite was in Key West, Florida, where a drag queen was lowered inside a supersized red high heel shoe. More Here
