Summary

What is the state color, the state flower or state animal of Massachusetts?

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 156933
Story Slug State - Animal (03/31/1999)
Location Boston, MA
Format Pkg*
Date 3/31/1999
Archive Time 1:30:24
TRT 1:37
Supers Boston, MA ALL SOTS ARE MOS EXCEPT JOE FALZONE Joe Falzone, Guitar Player Pam Cross, Reporting
Video Description People walking outside, crossing street, MOS sot - reporting questioning him. Female sot, another female sot, Female student standing at podium, girl sot, exterior of state house, school poster of toad, boy sot, cu of Boston Cream donut, Kerouac file, male sot, cu of man playing guitar, singing. Reporter stand up.
Description What is the state color, the state flower or state animal of Massachusetts?
Script LEAD: Recently Massachusetts has designated an official state cookie, dessert and even state polka. But there's more to be done... such as an official state cookie. Let's start with a little quiz, how about the state donut? SOT "I'm not a donut fan, not very helpful how about the state color... don't know that either, no." All right, how about preferences? SOT "I think it should be the glazed, the classic" SOT "If I said Boston Cream, ymmmm" The hearing was on bills to designate those one of a kind items. School children from Marblehear are pushing NECCO Wafers as the state candy. SOT "The golden dome conneclor, or state amphibian. Lawmakers are hard at work on these items. Pam Cross has more. TAKE PKG SCRIPT: Let's start with a little quiz, how about the state donut? SOT "I'm not a donut fan, not very helpful how about the state color... don't know that either, no." All right, how about preferences? SOT "I think it should be the glazed, the classic" SOT "If I said Boston Cream, ymmmm" The hearing was on bills to designate those one of a kind items. School children from Marblehear are pushing NECCO Wafers as the state candy. SOT "The golden dome connects us... to promises of future" Another group from Dover wants the color of the state house dome, named the official state color. How about an amphibian named Fowler? The boy scouts say the toad was discovered in Danvers SOT "In 1843 by Samuel Fowler" Boston Cream got dunked last year as the official donut, the proposal is back again. Jack Kerouac, the fifties beat poet from Lowell might get an official day and Joe Falzone brought a beat of his own. SOT (Joe Falzone) "We have a state polka, anthem, folk song... Arlo Guthrie" So why not an official ode? SOT "There's a not so commonwealth home" REPORTER STAND UP "Quirky or not, there's something quintessential New England about designations. SO bring on Kerouac's day, Fowler's toad, and the official state hero, but can someone please do something about the Necco wafer, maybe dip it in chocolate."
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