Sports Illustrated is scheduled to shoot a magazine cover at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Saturday, and everyone in Boston is invited to participate.
According to WCVB-TV, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and first responders will be in attendance and are encouraging the rest of the city to sport their "Boston Strong" apparel.
"It's not really much of a disruption. They are coming in and taking pictures early in the morning," Walsh said. "It's an interesting week for Boston. It's looking at what happened at the marathon a year ago. My concern is leading into the 15th is the family who lost loved ones and the survivors making it as comfortable as possible for them."
Between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. this Saturday, Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Exeter will be closed off for the shoot.
"Boston Strong is a story about people, ordinary people doing extraordinary things, ordinary people doing ordinary things," SI editor Chris Stone told the Washington Post. "SI's creative director, Chris Hercik, believed the best way to tell this story a year later was to bring all those people, or as many as possible, into a single photo at the finish line. If you look at last year's cover photo, you see all that empty space all the way down Boylston Street filled by smoke and that backdrop of chaos and destruction. This year's photo fills those spaces with the Bostonians who wrote the Boston Strong story."
Last year, the issue covering the tragedy at the Boston Marathon featured a participant on the ground and three police officers in action.
