Thursday will be a strange night. New Year s Eve 2020 will see few sparkly dresses, no public parties spilling into the streets, no crowded bars.
DJs will sit at home twiddling their thumbs like most everyone else with plenty to reflect on, learn from, consider and hope for. Times Square in New York City will be eerily quiet, except for occasional musical performances for TV.
There will be no dehydrated, frozen revelers protecting their cubic foot of personal space for the 12th hour in a row.
And as New York City goes, so will go the Erie region.
A historian, an Episcopal reverend, small business owners and plain old Erie residents of all ages will be sheltering in place.