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I raised my children on Becher Street, just across the fork of the river from Harris Park, and I can vouch for the pure torture of Harris Park “music” events. Sound is like plant life: if you like it, it’s music (or a welcome plant); if you don’t, it’s noise (or a weed). But that implies this is just a matter of taste. No, loud noise is more than that; it can be harmful to health and wellbeing. Extremely loud noise creates stress, it raises blood pressure, it interrupts or completely interferes with sleep. And the idea that the sound system of these open-air concerts is magically turned off at 11 p.m. is a fiction. Year after year, summer after summer, night after night, while my children were growing up, Harris Park rocked on past midnight.