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Midnight Fireworks on Boston Harbor Ring in a Soggy Start to 2019 [Video]

It was a soggy 2019 New Year’s fireworks display over Boston Harbor as pouring rain at midnight dampened the longstanding tradition. Still, the show went on with bursts of color emerging from a barge between Long Wharf and Fan Pier. And, there were plenty of hearty souls that came out to the waterfront to cheer the Read More…

New Year’s Eve Midnight Fireworks Return to Boston Harbor

A spectacular display of fireworks will once again ring in the New Year over Boston Harbor on December 31 beginning at midnight! In partnership with the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park, the Wharf District Council, Boston Harbor Now and the City of Boston, fireworks will be shot off from a barge between Long Wharf and Fan Read More…

Why No First Night Midnight Fireworks over Boston Harbor? Not New York Enough

Dusty Rhodes, founder and president of event planning company, Conventures Inc., was hired by the City of Boston to put on this year’s First Night. In a Globe puff piece, she talks about their plans for the 2017 New Year’s celebration and why it has been consolidated in Back Bay. “What Times Square is to New Read More…