KENNEBUNK, Maine — Hundreds of Mainers will head to downtown Kennebunk Tuesday night to ring in the new year with the dropping of a blueberry.
It's not an actually blueberry but a refurbished lawn ornament that Ian Durham and Jay Pacitti, members of the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, strung with a thousand lights more than five years ago when they decided they wanted a New Year's celebration closer to home.
"For a number of years, we were going to Portsmouth with our kids and Portland. It's too long a drive and we wanted something family-friendly to do with the kids and we said let's just make something right here in Kennebunk," Durham says as he gets ready to hang the blueberry.
Durham and Pacitti got the town involved and New Year's Eve Kennebunk was born in 2015.
It includes:
Other events across the state:
- Auburn: 2nd annual New Year’s celebration
- Bangor: Downtown Countdown starts at midnight - 3 a.m.
- Boothbay: Garden’s Aglow light display at Coastal Maine Botanical
- Eastport: The 15th annual Sardine & Maple Leaf Drop
- Portland: Several events see here.
- Yarmouth: The annual clam drop in Yarmouth has been canceled this year.