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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and the coming of Spring by entering celebrations.com’s It IS Easy Being Green photo contest! The winner will receive an Irish Classic Gift Basket and a $100 gift card from igourmet. Five runners-up will win an Irish Cheese Basket.

Submit your favorite Green image! It could be a photo of you wearing something Green, holding a Green item, dancing on a Green, eating something Green – use your creativity and imagination and show us that indeed, It IS Easy Being Green.

     

 In the United States, it’s customary to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. But in Ireland the color was long considered to be unlucky, says Bridget Haggerty, author of The Traditional Irish Wedding and the Irish Culture and Customs Web site.

As Haggerty explains, Irish folklore holds that green is the favorite color of the Good People (the proper name for faeries). They are likely to steal people, especially children, who wear too much of the color.

Parade Facts

Today New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade is the longest running civilian parade in the world. This year nearly three million spectators are expected to watch the spectacle and some 150,000 participants plan to march.

The 108th annual Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade will honor the “Men and Women of the Armed Forces”. South Boston is Boston’s most Irish neighborhood, and has a glorious tradition of helping others while keeping Irish heritage alive. The parade is led by John Hurley, a Navy veteran and South Boston native.

Chicago is famous for dyeing the Chicago River green on St. Patrick’s Day. The tradition began in 1962, when a pipe fitters union—with the permission of the mayor—poured a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of green vegetable dye into the river. (On the job, the workers often use colored dyes to track illegal sewage dumping.) Today only 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of dye are used, enough to turn the river green for several hours.

igourmet.com is located only 12 miles from downtown Scranton. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Scranton, PA has been going on annually since 1862 by the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Association of Lackawanna County and the parade has gotten attention nationally as being one of the better St. Patrick’s Day parades. The parade route begins on Wyoming Ave. and loops up to Penn Ave. and then Lackawanna Ave. before going back down over Jefferson Ave. to get to Washington Ave. Scranton hosts the fourth largest St. Patricks Day parade in the United States. Tens of thousands of parade goers attend the parade each year.

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