For starters, this year's First Night button makes you think, Joel Brown writes:
Wish I'd gone to the party last night so I could have seen the puzzled looks on the faces of the local dignitaries when the button was unveiled ...
Katken photographed First Night, including this ice sculpture in front of Trinity Church.
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Greg Mackay photographed ice penguins by the Aquarium. Matt Conti videoed the fireworks over Boston Harbor.
The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble at 3 p.m. is not to be, FirstNight tweets.
Although the afternoon performance is still canceled, the evening performance at the Church with the Giant Crack will go on, but with a piano, not the organ, FirstNight tweets.
Since the organ can't be used thanks to the crack caused by an MBTA elevator contractor (yes, that crack). Via FirstNight tweet.
Mchgtr videoed the Grand Procession down Boylston Street:
Video of the Common fireworks finale. Video of the fireworks over Boston Harbor.
Jim Sullivan runs down his choices for First Night events, including Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses doing "Extreme Spirituals" at Emmanuel Church.
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