Seasonal & Holidays
New Year's Eve In Danbury: Parties & Celebrations
There's no need to spend New Year's Eve home alone in the Danbury area.
![Here are a few New Year's Eve celebrations happening this week in the Danbury area.](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/shutterstock/22994611/20221230/024632/styles/patch_image/public/shutterstock-1608051838___30144519396.jpg)
DANBURY, CT — The ancient Mesopotamians invented the New Year's Eve celebration around 2000 years before Christ, with eleven days of parties and rituals celebrating sky god Marduk's beatdown of the evil sea dragon, Tiamat.
Of course, the ancient Mesopotamian new year began in mid-March — something about an equinox — but there's no reason why you should let a little astronomy stand in the way of a good time this week, the modern day end of the year.
Here are a few New Year's Eve celebrations happening in the Danbury area (bring your own cosmic dragons):
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Saturday, Dec. 31
Dave King at Rosy Tomorrows New Year's Eve!
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Rosy Tomorrow's, 15 Old Mill Plain Rd
Danbury
New Year’s Eve Celebration
6 p.m.
Portuguese Cultural Center, 65 Sand Pit Rd
Danbury
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New Year's Eve Bash!
Dec 31, 2022 – Jan 1, 2023
Farmboys Smokin' BBQ, 30 South St
Danbury
New Year's Eve Dinner & Live Music Party
6 – 10 p.m.
Aquila's Nest Vineyards, 56 Pole Bridge Rd
Sandy Hook
New Year's Eve Polar Pond Plunge!
1 p.m.
Sticks and Stones Farm, 201 Huntingtown Rd
Newtown
New Year's Eve party
7:00 – 11:30 p.m.
Anthony's Lake Club Catering, 10 Christopher Columbus Ave
Danbury
New Year's Eve After-Dinner Dance
8:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
Vitti's Dance Studio, 10 Precision Rd
Danbury
Shakedown New Year's Eve Party
Sat, 8:30 PM
Sugar Hollow Taproom, 66 Sugar Hollow Rd Suite 8
Danbury
The Rollin' Rust
Sat, 7 – 10 PM
Reverie Brewing Company, 57B Church Hill Rd
Newtown
Noon Year’s Eve Party
Sat, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Newtown Community Center, 8 Simpson St
Newtown
Noon Year's Eve
Sat, 10 AM – 1 PM
EverWonder Children's Museum, 31 Pecks Ln
Newtown
In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is, of course, the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Various cities have adopted their own iterations of the event — the Peach Drop in Atlanta, the Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop in Boise, Idaho.
The end of one year and beginning of another is often celebrated with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a Scottish folk song whose title roughly translates to “days gone by,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica and History.com.
The history of New Year’s resolutions dates back to the ancient Babylonians, who would make promises to return borrowed objects and pay outstanding debts at the beginning of their new year, also in March, when they planted their crops.
According to legend, if they kept their word, pagan gods would grant them favor in the coming year. If they broke the promise, they would fall out of the god’s favor, according to a history of New Year’s resolutions compiled by North Hampton Community College New Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Many secular New Year’s resolutions focus on imagining new, improved versions of ourselves. The failure rate of New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report. There are myriad reasons, but a big one is they’re made out of remorse for gaining weight, for example, and aren’t accompanied by a shift in attitude and a plan to meet the stress and discomfort of changing a habit or condition.
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