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12 Unusual Things Cities Drop on New Year’s Eve

When the new year reaches the United States, a unique tradition plays out across the country, because Americans like to drop things.
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Peeps (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)​

Pennsylvania is the undisputed champion of dropping strange stuff on New Year’s Eve, including a rather unseasonal appearance of the Peep. Usually rearing their multihued, marshmallowy heads around Easter time, Peeps are the famous creation of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based candy maker Just Born. First dropped in 2008, the 400-pound Peep chick greets the new year in front of the Pennsylvania town’s towering SteelStacks, which were the headquarters of Bethlehem Steel for nearly a century. Today, they serve as a cultural center as well as a staging ground for one of the more memorable NYE celebrations in the country.


Bologna (Lebanon, Pennsylvania)​

For more than 25 years, the town of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has dropped a giant package of bologna for New Year’s Eve. Lebanon is renowned for its bologna, first pioneered by the Pennsylvania Dutch, so the town’s meat-based tradition makes sense. Although it started at the end of 1997, the idea for a bologna drop was bandied about on local radio stations and newspapers for years. Local bologna maker Kutztown Bologna made a 100-pound, six-foot-long piece of meat for the inaugural celebration, and bologna has been a fixture of Lebanon’s New Year’s celebrations ever since.
 
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South central PA has quite the variety. White Rose: York, Pickle: Dillsburg, Abe Lincoln's hat: Gettysburg, Shoe: Hallam, Strawberry: Harrisburg, Kiss: Hershey, Wrench: Mechanicsburg, Mushroom: Kennett Square. I'm sure I'm missing some.
 
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saturdaysarebetter said:
interestingfacts.com

12 Unusual Things Cities Drop on New Year’s Eve

When the new year reaches the United States, a unique tradition plays out across the country, because Americans like to drop things.
interestingfacts.com interestingfacts.com

Bologna (Lebanon, Pennsylvania)​

For more than 25 years, the town of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has dropped a giant package of bologna for New Year’s Eve. Lebanon is renowned for its bologna, first pioneered by the Pennsylvania Dutch, so the town’s meat-based tradition makes sense. Although it started at the end of 1997, the idea for a bologna drop was bandied about on local radio stations and newspapers for years. Local bologna maker Kutztown Bologna made a 100-pound, six-foot-long piece of meat for the inaugural celebration, and bologna has been a fixture of Lebanon’s New Year’s celebrations ever since.
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They couldn’t even find a picture of Lebanon Bologna.

My hometown of Sunbury drops a lightbulb in honor of Thomas Edison.

https://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-399
 
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