The videos of people jumping into ponds, lakes, and oceans as part of a New Year’s Day tradition are trickling in.
The L Street Brownies in Boston are, perhaps, the best known:
New Yorkers did not go in quietly, of course:
Fort Wayne…
And Lake Minnetonka.
The practice appeared to make no sense at all in any of the locales.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins