Tufts fireworks tomorrow (Friday 4/30, 9:15 pm)

[ron_newman]

Tufts University will shoot off fireworks tomorrow night at 9:15 for the annual Tuftonia's Day (and the 150th anniversary of Tufts' founding). This will happen at the Rez Quad west of Packard Avenue.

Thanks to bex77 for the reminder.

Comments

[squirrelitude]

Nipping those "what_was_that"s in the bud, eh? :-P

[ron_newman]

Yep. We usually get three such occasions a year -- Tuftonia's Day in April, the Somerville city fireworks a few days before July 4, and Arlington Town Day in September.

[rainbow-spork.livejournal.com]

And I love that when I hear inexplicable fireworks, I know that I should just come here and all will be explained... Which is to say, thanks!

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Speaking of noise coming from Tufts, Saturday is the annual Spring Fling concert on the President's Lawn. The featured band is OK Go. It's a Tufts-only ticketed event, but you can easy stand/sit across Professors Row and listen. It's a dry event this year (last year led to the City of Somerville declaring it a mass casualty event because of the volume of alcohol-related calls), so it *may* be better behaved (or not).

Here's the posted tentative schedule (the other bands are student groups):

Spring Fling 2010
Schedule
12:00 pm Gates Open
12:45 pm Sam Adams
2:00 pm Drake
3:30 pm OK Go



BTW, Ron: have you ever considered a "Tufts" tag? If Sound Bites has one, then we probably need one for the biggest employer in the neighborhood.

[ron_newman]

The 'tufts' tag is probably a good idea. Surprisingly, they don't seem to show up much in DSLJ, other than your movie series posts and the annual fireworks posts.

[ron_newman]

is "OK Go" the name of a band, or does it mean "the show's over, please go away" ?

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

It's a band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_go

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

They did the video a few years ago with synchronized treadmills.

I always wanted to name my band "Now Appearing" or "Closed for Repairs" just for the marquee value.

[ron_newman]

Next you'll tell me that "Gates Open" is a band, too.

[stefan62.livejournal.com]

"Open Bar" works, too.

[ron_newman]

I added a 'tufts' tag, and did some retrotagging, using the new LJ search facility to find some recent posts that mention Tufts. You may want to go back and do more retrotagging, as I eventually got lazy and stopped.