It may come from an advertising campaign for McKay Scotch, or maybe it originally honored Elijah McCoy, the African-American inventor who perfected, among other things, rubber heels and lawn sprinklers.
Listeners walking through the park before 5 p.m. found small arrays of unattended drums, cymbals, xylophones and other instruments stationed along the park's stairs and walkways, and conch shells, paper cones and rubber tubes scattered around the lawn where the performance was to begin.
Well, it didn't seem much good hanging about so we went to bed, and in the morning the water had gone off the lawns and we put on our rubber boots and began to take stock of the damage".
"Y'all are hosing down the area out here," Mr. Rooks said, pointing to a length of rubber snaking from the open garage onto the bluegrass lawn.
They specifically chose an artificial lawn that had no infill made from crumb rubber, a controversial ingredient that may carry health risks.
It was unstable, and the rubber wheel sank into wet earth and left ruts on the lawn.
According to the association, some toy sirens and squeaky rubber toys can emit sounds of 90 dB, as loud as a lawn mower.
As she tugged off yellow rubber gloves following a long day of cleaning, Ms. Davies scanned the back lawn, now a mud flat, and gazed out at the creeks that had become their nemesis.
Thomas Cherian of West Orange mows his lawn on Sundays with his children watching from the front steps, and he wears rubber gloves because he has allergies.
Workers wearing rubber gloves pulled out the bodies one by one and laid them in a row on the lawn for a quick examination by a police pathologist.
