St Pats Blackout

[vernacular_life]

Blackout dampens city's St Pats celebration

""Everybody's just kind of wandering around aimlessly.""

In college, friends and I took a road trip to Savannah for St Pats, and I can attest that even WITHOUT a blackout, there was lots of wandering around aimlessly :P The trouble that we could have gotten in that weekend makes me afraid to send Ben away to college :P Talk about a drunken mess of debauchery....and who'd a thunk that Savannah was a Mecca of St Pats revelry?!.

Baltimore is pretty quiet for St Pats, minus the few Irish bars.
Do any of you live in big St Pats towns? I know that gatheringmoss complained about Cleavland...and again, not a town I'd think of as being a big Irish celebration town.

Boston, on the other hand....oof.

Comments

[njlorelei.livejournal.com]

One of friends plays drums in a bagpipe band that performs in Savannah many years for their parade. The first time she went I was shocked to find out they are one of the biggest St. Patty's celebrations in the US.

Our town, no St. Patick's Day festivities. NYC, yes big time. Many towns in NJ do have big celebrations and parades but they all have them on different days throughout the beginning of March. Mainly because the same bands perform in all of the parades so they have to have them on different days.

The beach town, Belmar, that I used to live in holds their parade/party the first Sunday in March. We went down to it again this year. The winter population is about 6,000, but on parade day about 150,000 people are there.

[vernacular-life.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one surprised about the size of Savannah's party.


Bmore does have a parade, but its not one of those no-holds-bars kind and I doubt people come from miles away to see it....and 150000 people in town for a parade is NUTS!

[gatheringmoss.livejournal.com]

It's a huge holiday here - we had a large Irish immigrant population come to Cleveland in the early part of the last century. Many came to work in the steel mills. Most of the yahoos out there partying today probably had nothing to do with those original immigrants though! I work on the 8th floor of an office building and I can hear the shenanigans as clear as day. Can't wait to dodge the puddles of barf on the train tonight :/

Amd for the record, I myself am 1/4 Irish.

[tray85.livejournal.com]

Chicago - huge St. Patty's day celebrations. My friend in VA was nostalgic for Chicago when she saw the green river on the news. When I lived downtown, I would be getting ready for work on St. Patricks day and think - what the hell is all of that noise? I'd then remember, the drunkenness has already begun (and the camera crews were already following people around). Even out in the burbs, every restaurant has an Irish feast special this week.

[angelgirl8.livejournal.com]

nyc: nutty for st. patrick's day.

[eleanor-ramilly.livejournal.com]

There is a town about 40 minutes north of Jacksonville called Emerald Isle. They have a festival the weekend before, but it's more family-friendly.

[brandyshea.livejournal.com]

My cousin went to Savannah for St. Pats this year. I almost went with her, but there was a concert at home that I didn't want to miss so I didn't go.