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Speaker 1: Consider it a warning from Boston Mayor Michelle wou Bundle up.

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Speaker 1: First Night Boston is going to get chilly.

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Speaker 2: There are places to duck into the Library and Copley

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Speaker 2: Mall and other places nearby.

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Speaker 1: The forecast is calling for tempts in the low twenties.

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Speaker 1: This is First Night's fiftieth years. It started on New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve nineteen seventy six as a small arts festival.

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Speaker 2: Some of the children who first sawt back then have

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Speaker 2: now taken multiple generations of their family to experience this,

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Speaker 2: and you want to keep that going now.

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Speaker 1: It's packed with live music, to firework shows, ice skating,

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Speaker 1: and new this year, archery, somewhat to the Mayor's chagrin.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how Commissioner Cox let that one by,

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Speaker 2: but come on down.

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Speaker 1: The festivities begin an earnest around two o'clock on Wednesdays,

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Speaker 1: spread around the city, with City Hall as a focal point.

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Speaker 1: The mayor says that'll be good for local businesses. Officials

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Speaker 1: are asking people not to drive. All modes of the

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Speaker 1: tea will be free starting at eight pm Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schaffeld deb Busy, Boston's news radio