23.05.12
NORTHAMPTON - The eager was happy and festive and the weather was good as hundreds of people gathered on the downtown streets Saturday to at First Night 2012.
"There are a lot of people in town and I thought there would be a lot of long lines, but with so many venues to determine from, there is not much waiting at all," said Mary Fleming of Northampton.
At those venues were a genre of musical and dance performances, comedy, puppet shows, storytelling and balloon art.
The festivities began at noon with a circus execution at the Northampton Center For the Arts, which was soon interrupted by a fire alarm that sent the audience out of the structure for 10 minutes.
"According to the Fire Department, it was just a defective smoke detector that had gone off," said Penny Burke, head director of the center which produces First Night.
Burke said in spite of that glitch, the rest of the event went smoothly.
"We put out 10,000 buttons and looking at what was sinistral, it appears that most of them went out," Burke said. "It looks like we had a influential night, but we won't have the exact figures until next week. Overall, it was a very pleasant actuality.
Source: GazetteNET