GREEN

There is a huge parade downtown on the Saturday before the official St. Patrick’s Day. I sometimes wonder why just the Irish, since we have sizable German, Italian, Jewish and many other populations. (There is a vibrant African-American parade later in the spring.)  There are roots far back in U.S. history, but it really got going in 19th Century New York, arising from massive immigration and reactionary discrimination.  https://tinyurl.com/5n7j59ev                 

We will arrive in Ireland in a month,  but not until after an international detour in the opposite direction.