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Calamari comeback, topless voter: New England s weird news from 2020
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Fortunately, New Englanders came through with some welcome pandemic distractions.
Rhode Island s signature squid took center stage at the Democratic National Convention. A Connecticut city named a sewage treatment plant in comedian John Oliver s (dis)honor. And a soybean farmer in Vermont harvested a prosthetic leg that a skydiver had lost during a jump.
A guide to some of the region s stranger stories from the past 12 months:
CALAMARI COMEBACK
Rhode Island was a big sensation at the virtual Democratic National Convention for its unconventional video plugging calamari the state s official appetizer. In a nationally broadcast made-for-memes moment, a lawmaker and a restaurateur with a heaping plate of sauteed squid stood on a beach and proclaimed Rhode Island the calamari comeback state. State Democratic Party chair Joseph McNamara said he wanted to highlight how the coronavirus pandemic has decimated the seafood industry. Rhode Island s 30-second spot, part of the DNC s roll
Calamari comeback, topless voter: New England s weird 2020
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âCalamari comeback,â topless voter: 6 weirder stories out of New England this year
By WILLIAM J. KOLE The Associated Press,Updated December 28, 2020, 10:45 a.m.
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Doug Henning, right, who was adopted as a baby, poses with his biological father after meeting face to face for the first time on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, at Logan International Airport in Boston. Henning, of Eliot, Maine, wore a costume like the one actor Will Ferrell s character wore in the movie Elf and he broke into the same awkward song from the movie while meeting his father.Rebecca Taylor Henning/Associated Press
Itâs difficult to imagine a year when we needed a little comic relief more desperately than in 2020. No yuks? Yuck.