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Plunges are now held across the United States. Annual events are held in Seattle (since 1993), New York's Coney Island Polar Bear Club, Lake George NY, Boston (since 1904), Milwaukee's Bradford Beach (since 1916), and New Jersey. Some, such as Minnesota's are held to raise proceeds for the Special Olympics.
The Plungapalooza event in Maryland, the largest polar bear plunge in the United States, held annually at Sandy Point State Park, raises funds for the Special Olympics. Sponsored by the Maryland State Police, in 2007, Plungapalooza raised $2.2 million and had 7,400 participants. In 2008, an estimated 12,000 people participated.
Every Super Bowl Sunday, Long beach NY hosts one of the largest in the US. Since 1998 thousands of people flock to the beaches of Long Beach NY to jump into the ocean on Super Bowl Sunday. http://www.longbeachpolarbears.org/
Watch Video from 2013 Polar Bear Plunge in Lake George, NY
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“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
Gaping at the lady in the swing.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)