Eagle Rock Bites the Dust
BOSTON — The Boston College Eagle Rock Festival, scheduled for Friday, August 14, was among the most bizarre casualties of this summer festival season. On Wednesday the 12th, just two days before the festival was scheduled to take place, Boston Mayor Kevin White refused to issue the necessary permit for the festival, citing inadequate security and strongly implying paranoia as his reasons for the refusal.
Eagle Rock Bites the Dust
BOSTON — The Boston College Eagle Rock Festival, scheduled for Friday, August 14, was among the most
bizarre casualties of this summer festival season. On Wednesday the 12th, just two days before the festival was scheduled to take place, Boston Mayor Kevin White refused to issue the necessary permit for the festival, citing inadequate security and strongly implying paranoia as his reasons for the refusal. In light of the entire
atmosphere surrounding the festival and its preparations, the Mayor’s announcement shocked nearly everyone and quite righteously outraged more than a few.
To begin with, Eagle Rock was perhaps the only festival in recent memory which could boast a genuine community-serving program. The proceeds from this festival were to be directed toward the construction of an entertainment dome on land donated by Boston College. The expressed purpose of the 8,000 capacity styrofoam dome was to provide Boston with a home for entertainment which would not be economically exploitive of the community.