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Neil Talks March Madness
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An Important Part of Your Insurance Policy
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March Madness Tech to Make You a Predicting Genius
Orange Glazed Salmon
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How the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Got Rolling
A Boston Legacy The History of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
by providence.” But whether by fate or by coincidence, the effect remains the same: Many residents of Suffolk County get to enjoy a day off just in time for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities. AN ENDURING LEGACY The St. Patrick’s Day parade remains a proud tradition in this city, and the world has joined in. Even Ireland’s celebration now strongly resembles our own — the traditions of homesick immigrants having come full circle back to the home country. So, regardless if you’ve got any Irish heritage, don some green and celebrate! It’s the Boston thing to do!
to church services. The joyous celebrations we know today were actually born on American soil, right in South Boston. The first ever St. Patrick's Day parade was held by a society of Irish immigrants honoring their heritage in Southie in 1724 — a full 52 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed! COINCIDENCE OR PROVIDENCE? Famously, March 17 isn’t just reserved for St. Patrick in this town. Evacuation Day, celebrating when British troops were driven from Boston by a storm and the approaching Continental Army, just happened to fall on the same date in 1776! George Washington called the bloodless retreat an “interposition
While the Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been canceled for this year, that doesn’t mean people can’t show Irish pride on March 17. While other cities like New York may claim large Irish populations and a long and proud history of celebrating the holiday, nothing compares to the way we do St. Patrick’s Day right here in Boston. The reasons for that lie in the very roots of this city. AN AMERICAN SPIN It may surprise some that St. Patrick’s Day wasn’t a day for parades and merrymaking in Ireland itself. For most of the nation’s history, it was a day of prayer — taverns would even shut down as proprietors and bartenders went
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