Nashville notes the new year<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the \u201cMusic City,\u201d it\u2019s only natural that the new year is rung in with a famed red music note dropped from a 140-foot tower at midnight. The giant aluminum and acrylic music note stands 16 feet tall and weighs around 400 pounds. There are 28.140 LED pixels in the note, according to Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. When the note drops at midnight, it is accompanied by a 90-second firework display.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nDoor County\u2019s cherry drop<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is year No. 9 for Door County, Wisconsin\u2019s giant cherry drop. The county chose to welcome the new year with the sparkling 300-pound cherry as a way to boost travel in the winter season and also create a celebration with locals, according to Ellie Soderberg-Guger of the Sister Bay Information Center, who added that the event has brought tourism awards and grants to the area since it started.<\/p>\n\nAmelia Island favors shrimp<\/strong><\/p>\nTen years ago, Amelia Island, Florida, launched a new tradition of dropping a giant shrimp to mark the new year alongside fireworks, Madison Jozsa, the director of public relations & social media at Amelia Island Convention & Visitors Bureau, told USA TODAY. \u201cThe Shrimp was a logical choice since Fernandina is renowned as the birthplace of the modern shrimping industry,\u201d Jozsa added.<\/p>\n\nFans can watch the LED, custom shrimp drop at a waterfront event in downtown Fernandina Beach that also features food, music and vendors. This year\u2019s LED shrimp will be new and improved, Jozsa added, and the event will include a \u201cName the Shrimp\u201d competition.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nKey West heel clicks into 2026<\/strong><\/p>\nIn southern Florida\u2019s Key West, the New Year\u2019s Eve ball drop looks a bit different from jumbo shrimp. Key West has dropped a giant, ruby-red heel for more than 20 years, complete with a drag queen inside of it as it\u2019s being lowered.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach year a fabulous drag queen climbs over a balcony railing in a gorgeous gown and carefully settles herself in the eight-foot-long red high heel dangling some 15 feet above Duval Street, smiles and gives a \u2018queen\u2019s wave\u2019 to thousands of cheering New Year\u2019s Eve revelers below,\u201d the Visit Florida Keys website states. The event includes performances by other entertainers as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nBoise\u2019s glowing potato drop<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Boise, Idaho, fans can watch for the 13th year as a giant, glowing potato is dropped at the state\u2019s capitol. The tater glows above the city for a few hours before it drops at midnight alongside a firework display. The Potato Rise begins at 6 p.m. local time. While it might look real, it\u2019s not an actual potato dangling above the city. The item is a custom-built polystyrene resin potato illuminated from within and painted to resemble a real Idaho potato, according to the event\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Plop goes the pierogi in Whiting<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Whiting, Indiana, a different type of potato dish takes to the skies to commemorate the new year. The northwest Indiana town has dropped a pierogi at midnight for the past nine years, and will do so again this New Year\u2019s Eve, along with fireworks.<\/p>\n\nThe 10-foot pierogi is illuminated with lights while it drops 50 feet into a boiling caldron. The event, organized by the Whiting Knights of Columbus, is \u201ca little out there,\u201d Andy Dybel, chairman of the pierogi drop, told USA TODAY. \u201cWe\u2019ve got the big compound clocks, and we got lighting, and we got music and confetti and the church bells in town ring right when this happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raleigh drops a giant acorn<\/strong><\/p>\nNorth Carolina\u2019s \u201cCity of Oaks\u201d celebrates the new year with a giant cooper-and-steel acorn drop. The acorn, commissioned for Raleigh\u2019s bicentennial in 1992, is 10 feet tall and weighs more than 1,200 pounds, according to the Downtown Raleigh Alliance.<\/p>\n\nLocal artist David Benson created the acorn as a riff on the city\u2019s nickname. When it\u2019s not being lowered on a crane to cap off the annual First Night celebration, the acorn can be found on display at Raleigh\u2019s City Plaza. \u201cIt\u2019s a beloved icon, for sure,\u201d said Stacy Bloom-Rexrode, curator of exhibitions and collections for the city\u2019s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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