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Merry Christmas, Belmont!
By [email protected] on Sun, 11/16/2008 - 10:09am
I've noticed this week that Belmont already has their holiday decorations up across the street downtown.
Anyone up for creating a spreadsheet of the 351 municipalities of our Commonwealth with the dates that the towns first put up winter holiday decorations?
Stores and commercial ventures don't count; that's capitalism at work: only town/city government or the like decorations count.
How come Belmont isn't in the Neighborhoods listing? Too sleepy a place?
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Already up in New Bedford
I noticed either last week or the week before that New Bedford had their decorations up on the light poles down town.
Don't remember the exact date, but I do remember thinking that it was way too early. :)
Thanksgiving comes first!
Enough with the early Christmas crap! Let us first observe the most awesome of holidays, Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is the best holiday ever, and every year it gets further marginalized by the increasingly early onslaught of Christmas. It's quite unfair.
It's a quiet town
But I've added it to the Neighborhoods listing.
Up, but not on
Mashpee put up those big, energy wasting, bulbs the day after Halloween (yes, during the weekend). They haven't turned them on yet, but I'm sure that the millisecond the last piece of tinsel has decorated Mashpee Commons someone will flip the switch. And then advertise sales for a good six weeks using footage filmed in summer.
Christmas decorations - Somerville and North End (Boston)
Today I saw city workers putting up Christmas wreaths in Davis Square and on the trellises of Christopher Columbus Park. The park will hold its lighting ceremony next Monday evening, November 24.
Anyone else get requests from NowPublic for photos?
In the past week I've gotten two requests from NowPublic.com, via flickr, from people asking for permission to use my photos on their "community news site". Has anyone else seen this? Any experience with NowPublic?