PRINCESS ANNE -- As a crowd counted down the final hours of 2011, the town's new unofficial mascot made his descent from the bucket of the fire company's ladder truck to the street below.
Volunteer firefighter Ronnie Haymaker had the honors of lowering Marshall P. Muskrat in his specially designed box during Princess Anne's first Midnight Muskrat New Year's Eve Celebration on Saturday night.
An arborist by profession, Haymaker said he's used to lowering large tree limbs to the ground, which is a lot trickier.
"Lowering a rat straight down is pretty simple," he said.
About 500 people attended the town's first New Year's celebration, dressed in everything from formal attire to blue jeans, and some toting lawn chairs and small children.
People came from as far away as Delaware, Ocean City, Salisbury, Cambridge and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, said Ben Alder, director of the Princess Anne Main Street Partnership, who organized the event.
2 comments:
I would love to see a New Year's block party in Delmar! Don't know about the big rat though...
Drop the highball.
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