2025

 

As the sci-fi date of 2025 unfolded, I was in downtown Northampton, where Silent Cal sat at the center of a pulsating psychedelic light show.

 

 

The streets were packed, but strangely enough no non-alcoholic places were open (lots of families and you can't take kids in a bar) or vendors on site to cash in on the crowds except this one pizza joint on Main Street that looked like it was making a fortune.

 

As midnight approached, people began pouring out of the downtown bars and the street was soon filled with revelers as far as the eye could see. 

 

 

A hush descended on the crowd as the ball atop the Hotel Northampton ascended during the final seconds of the countdown.

 

 

At the stroke of midnight the crowd exploded into a madcap scene of bedlam with clapping, shouting, laughing and dancing.

 

 

 A good time was had by all.