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These beautifully crafted works of art will be on display for the public from noon until 12:30 a.m. You’ll be able to view “animals of the icy poles” near the Copley fountain and around the Boston Public Library. Glistening, expertly designed ice sculptures will debut around Copley Square as part of a themed “Wonders of the Frozen Ocean” display. (Courtesy First Night Boston, Inc.) Ice Gallery An ice sculpture from a previous First Night Boston. Ring in the new year with this handy guide to Boston’s First Night and decide which of its features you won’t want to miss. will also have 1,000 rapid COVID-19 tests to distribute. Health Center, will be on Copley Square from noon to 7 p.m. Then the Boston Public Health Commission will vaccinate and provide boosters at the Boston Public Library until 11 p.m. There will also be two vaccination and booster clinics. On Thursday, Mayor Michelle Wu announced that all First Night activities will be outdoors. 31, will return in-person after last year’s programming went virtual due to the pandemic.įrom circus performers to musical acts, with styles ranging from jazz to country to rap, the event’s dynamic schedule is bound to entertain and fill revelers with joy.

(Courtesy First Night Boston, Inc.)įirst Night Boston, the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration on Dec. Virgil, Morgan and Holliday were wounded but recovered.Īnd Wyatt Earp, though he wasn't the fastest gun in the fight, came out without a scratch.A crowd watching a performance during a previous First Night Boston. In the end - the fight lasted only 30 seconds or so, with at least 20 shots being fired - Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers died. 'In the meantime, Billy Clanton gets off the first shot. He's older, and he's probably not going to rush his shot,'' Trimble says. 'Wyatt thought, 'I better take Frank, because he's more dangerous. While Earp was doing his split-second assessing, young Billy Clanton - he was only 18 or 19 at the time - saw what he thought was an opening and took his shot. 'His mind calculated - he was kind of like a quarterback when the defense moves on you, and you have to calculate, 'What's my backup plan, here?' - and not everybody really can do that, especially when there's live rounds coming at you,' says Marshall Trimble, Arizona's official state historian. And that's when Wyatt Earp stepped into Western lore. So when they went to arrest the Cowboys at about 3 p.m., they expected the Cowboys to be unarmed. They had ordered the Cowboys to give up their guns earlier in the day, warning them with a pistol-whipping at the hands of Wyatt. The Earps weren't really expecting a gunfight. That afternoon, Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Wyatt's friend John Henry 'Doc' Holliday faced off against a rowdy group of outlaws known as the Cowboys Billy Claiborne, brothers Ike and Billy Clanton, and brother Frank and Tom McLaury. And on that day, Earp was not the fastest gunslinger in town. Nothing proved Earp's mettle more than the tumultuous gunfight near the O.K. In fact, the faster draw generally misses, and therefore gets killed.' 'When it comes to gunfights, the idea is to stay alive, not necessarily draw fast. But they would not have understood if you'd have said, 'Who's fastest with a gun?'

'Having said that, there was this sense of a reputation of dangerous men with a gun. 'Anything that has created this myth of the fast draw is a byproduct of entertainment,' says Jim Dunham, the director of special projects and historian at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.

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Corral, with a bunch of men unloading at each other all at once, than a mano-a-mano showdown in the middle of town.Īnd in a close-range free-for-all, speed is not all it's cracked up to be. But they were just as apt to be like the O.K. It's ' High Noon.' It's ' Gunfight at the O.K. The well-worn picture we have of a Wild West gunfight - a tension-filled standoff in the middle of a dusty street, often at high noon, won invariably by the man who unholsters his gun more quickly than his opponent - is largely fiction.

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