Founding Father
Posing as Benjamin Franklin, Vincent W. Chiang '88, also of Eliot House, decided to go fly a kite. "I liberated it from a tree, and now I'm trying to set it free again," Chiang said.
Impersonating Crimson cheerleaders, a beer-drenched crowd of Kirkland men took up a chant and acrobatically spelled out "G-L-O-R-I-A."
Some of the riverside antics were less self-explanatory. Six men reached toward the sky, spreading their coats wide. "We're holding up our jackets to get higher wind resistance to lean into the wind," said Randall H. Wilson '87 of Adams House.
Most of the rivergoers safely withstood the heavily hyped hurricane, but at least one injury was reported. Karen Spinks of Mott St., Boston, broke a leg when she slipped and fell, M.D.C. officer Bradford A. Waite said.
Jonathan M. Moses and Ari Z. Posner contributed to the reporting of this article.