Boom Days Will Celebrate Five Years In Spring
Committee members of Boom Days met today at the Outer Harbor to introduce Boom Days' Passport to Spring. Boom Days is a celebration of spring that is marked by the hauling in of the river's ice boom - the ice then flows down the river and revelers rejoice. Next year will mark the 5th year that the event will have taken place, and each year the celebration gets bigger and broader, with more committee lending a hand. Next year the event will be held April 13th to the 15th and crowds are expected to surpass the 1000 person mark. Event highlights will include passport stamping contest, fireworks, canon fires, EM Cotter journeys to the ice boom, food, drinks, music, and educational exhibits. Next year we will have to see if the ice boom comes back to its original Times Beach location - rumor has it that there are parties who are may own land close by to store the ice boom, which would free up a big section of land for public use along the shores of the Outer Harbor.
Present in the above photo are (L-R) Tim Herzog (Flying Bison), Clint Brown, Rick Smith (Kick Some Pigs), Mike Kelleher (Just Buffalo), Paul Dyster (RiverKeeper), Jay "Micropark" McCarthy, and Jeannie Wolf.
Just picture that brown grassy area, behind the men, as beach with out the break wall in the far distance.
Without the breakwall they're be no beach left from one season to the next, right?
Hmm? The former responses indicate some readers are a bit confused, but lemme explain.
There'll always be a breakwall, no problem. Buffalo's breakwall is regarded in maritime circles worldwide as undebatedly one of the earth's great Man-made engineering treasures.
The metal hot-dog links of a "Boom," on otherhand, is a moveable ice hold-back pheonomena of engineering that each season becomes implimented at varying degrees of public acceptance, and is currently being proposed to be moved elsewhere from its current beach storage area which opens the beach to progress there for waterfront access.
no boom u doom