This really isn’t anything totally new. A few years ago we experienced the same Front Street closures and were told by several merchants it was done to accommodate the large number of cruise ship passengers.

And on another note, pictures were posted in the last week or so of a relatively sparsely peopled Front Street on a heavy cruise ship day. It was suggested that more and more the cruisers limit their purchasing to the ship and in the various port facilities as opposed to shopping the street.