L Street Brownies Polar Plunge 2010

It’s New Years Eve in 1903 in South Boston and you are sitting around the pub with your buddies from the members club having a few drinks. The conversation centers on if 36 year old Boston Red Sox player Cy Young will come back for one more season after beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series. After a few more rounds the topic changes to New Years Day and you all reflect about the past year to determine what you will do differently this coming year and then one of your buddies dares everyone to take a dip in Boston Harbor on New Year’s Day. With the liquid courage working you all agree to meet the next morning at the L street beach for a winter swim in the 30 degree ocean……106 years later that tradition still lives on. The L Street Brownies on January 1^st of every year meet at that same beach and take that same dip in the frigid waters of Dorchester Bay, it has turned from a local dare in a pub to 600 strong members of the L Street Brownies taking the polar plunge…and yes for those who were wondering, I also took the traditional plunge after taking these photos!