KENNETT SQUARE: The falling fungus

The other day someone on Facebook, obviously a newcomer, was asking whether there were any local New Year's Eve festivities. Folks were quick to point out that Kennett Square has a unique way of ringing in the New Year: the Mushroom Drop!
The sixth annual "Midnight on the Square" celebration in the middle of town starts at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 31, with a laser light show. At 6:30 The Garage Youth Center on South Union Street opens for children's entertainment with Dan & Galla (you know them from the Unionville Community Fair). Performances by dancers and musicians on the street also start at 6:30, and the lighted mushroom is raised via crane at 8:45 p.m. The Funsters will perform from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on South Union Street. And the fungus, of course, descends at the stroke of midnight.
Remote parking with shuttle buses (from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.) is available at Exelon and at Kennett High School.