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St. Patrick's parade could be canceled or moved
By adamg on Sat, 02/28/2015 - 9:35am
The snow's too damn high, the Globe reports. And yes, on Feb. 16, Mayor Walsh did promise the South Boston parade would go on.
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Catholic school pulls out of St. Patrick's Day parade
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/28209736/catholic-school-pulls-out-of-s...
Yawn
That school threatens to do this every. single. year.
That's their right to do, and
That's their right to do, and to quote the Pontiff, "who am I to judge?"
Reactionary Catholics
"Father Feeney's" church/school is infamous around the Harvard Mass area. He had been excommunicated by the church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Feeney
Harvard MA?
While an interesting article, there is no mention of Harvard MA. I did see a mention of Harvard Sq and Harvard University in Cambridge.
EDIT: Never mind, I see the school is in Still River which is obscurely in Harvard MA.
A true Catholic would never
A true Catholic would never pull out.
Move it to
the South Shore where everyone that sold Ma's three decker lives now anyway.
Scituate St. Patrick's Day parade already postponed to April 12
"Due to Excessive Weather". It was originally scheduled for March 15.
Don't cancel it
Just make snow bars along the route like that one in JP - just use green lamps instead of multicolored lights.
http://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2015/02/23/snow-bar/8950
Has to stay in Southie
It commemorates the Evacuation of British forces from Boston. Dorchester Heights was key to that happening.
And the significance of the route is the trouble. If it were Broadway, Dorchester Street and say L Street, those could (and should) be cleared. It's the other streets that are the problem.
How can we all take St Paddy's day off and get drunk?
Why lets create a public holiday just for Suffolk County.
We will call it Evacuation Day. Nobody will notice.
Brilliant!
Pass me another pint.
Wait
whats wrong with that?
Well if you aren't a
Well if you aren't a government worker you still have to work since its a fake holiday, but we have to pay them to have the day off to get drunk.
But it's OK for the stock market
and most of the financial industry to shut down for a religious holiday. Because government workers don't deserve time off, but private industry can do whatever they please, right?
Um
Yes, that's exactly right. That's the difference being private and public.
No, St Patrick's Day
No, St Patrick's Day celebrates the Patron Saint of Ireland's death. In South Boston it been expanded to include a white power celebration.
Does it?
Does it? It's called the St. Patrick's Day parade, not the Evacuation Day parade. The parade website does acknowledge Evacuation Day as a relevant bit of Southie history, but the parade seems far more focused around what happened after the Irish showed up than when the British were forced to leave. But this isn't a rhetorical question, I genuinely am not knowledgeable of all the ins and outs of the parade.
End the parade at Long Wharf
Isn't that where the British evacuated from, onto their ships?
Start it at Dorchester Heights, go up West Broadway to A Street to Congress to Atlantic. Those streets are all well-plowed and clear.
This route would also make the parade a truly city-wide welcoming event without taking it entirely out of South Boston.
Please
My whole family is still in Boston, only because we can still afford to send our kids to private schools. The Great White Flight never would have happened if BPS had quality schools and athletic programs.
Yep.
Move it out of SoBo!
SoBo hasn't been an Irish neighborhood for about 25 years now. How many residents were born in Ireland? or had parents or grandparents born there? < 5% I'd guess.
I've been here for many years now and I have not once heard anyone speaking Gaelic.
Move it to Boylston Street!
A tale of two parades.
A tale of two parades. Patriots vs. St. Patrick.
Walsh is the Gerald Ford of mayors.
In defense of Marty Walsh
The Patriots parade was a much shorter route and came after just one snow storm.
Patriots parade was after two snowstorms
January 27 and February 2.
And
The two streets used for the parade are on the top of the list for snow removal.
East Whatever Street is pretty far down there.
My big problem with the
My big problem with the Patriot's Parade is that there is a ton of confetti still everywhere on the ground and it has been mashed into the concrete (even up to Charlestown) but most disturbing, it is all over King's Chapel and I'm assuming the Granary. Some of those stones are over 250-300 years old...hopefully they are permanently damaged.
Popcorn at the ready!!
This is going to get interesting.....!!! One of the proposals I read is to hold the parade, but have it on the route of the Patriot's victory parade. That will go over well with all the small businesses in South Boston. In past years, any remaining snow banks were removed in the days leading up to the parade (I was looking forward to that clean-up this year!) but sounds like they've determined that there's too much snow along the route his year. Stay tuned....
Move it out of Southie
The businesses you talk about are mostly bars and restaurants and anyone can tell you they are the cheapest when it comes to donating to the parade. I'd rather celebrate with friends and family minus all the drunken hipsters.
Joseph's as an example...
I was specifically thinking of a place like Joseph's Deli and Bakery on K Street. Families will reserve large orders of food for house parties - it could greatly affect their business if the parade is outright cancelled or moved away from the neighborhood. I have a love/hate affair with the parade, having lived on the route for 30+ years....just considering the impact of this decision on someone other than myself.
An alternate route
Start the march at the Teachers Union Hall and end at Sullivan's at Castle Island or start at the Convention Center and march around the Seaport District.
Also
I have to wonder about the situation at Fenway Park. They've never had 5+ feet of snow this close to the home opener, it doesn't seem to be warming up fast, and it getting heavy equipment in there and snow out of there would be difficult.
Fortunately, Red Sox home opener is late this year
The MLB season starts a week later than usual this year, and the Sox schedule starts with a week of away games in Philadelphia and Yankee Stadium. So the Fenway home opener is not until April 13.
A parade for the Pats...
but not for St. Patrick. Boo!
thats B,S
So marty can have a patriots rally planned in two days but cant have a yearly ritual which he has months to plan go thru that is a pile of horse shit to me..im not happy right now....
People in southie are never
People in southie are never happy, whats new?
So true
Read any of the Southie blogs, the Yuppies and Newbies whine about everything.
Is this God's response?
To claims of global warming and allowing a gay group to march for the first time?
Thumbs down
Times a Brazillion!
I hope you're not serious.
Why not?
If you believe in God, doesn't he still do some of that Old Testament natural disaster stuff every once and a while to keep people on their toes?
Except that, after Noah piloted the Ark
and the world was flooded out, God promised the humans that he would never do anything like that ever again. It's the followers of Nostradamus (the "we can tell you how out guy predicted events that have already happened" crowd) that insist that this stuff still happens.
4 snowiest winters ever
In the last 21 years, Boston has now had 4 of its top 5 snowiest seasons ever. Food for thought.
Meanwhile gays have been marching in the granddaddy of all St Patrick's day parades, for years. In Dublin, Ireland.
Sarcasm?
I hope.
No....
... it's typical Markk02474 rubbish talk.
Flaming gays might be useful
Flaming gays might be useful around town.
Yeah, rhetorical question
to encourage diversity of opinion and welcome the die-hard, traditional Southie point of view! The snow and lack of removal could just be a conspiracy to keep gays from marching!
Sorry, but I know plenty of longtime Southie residents who
understand enough science to understand the difference between climate and weather, and to acknowledge the longstanding climate science that predicts more severe winter storms (and other extreme weather systems, hot and cold and dry and rainy) as a consequence of global warming.
In short, not every Southie resident is a Fox News watching dolt.
More food for thought
One of the biggest gay cruising areas in the city, was located in Southie. Carson beach. Ironically located right next door to the police station. Plenty of mini-vans with child seats and loaded with denial, cruising the parking lot back in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Then remove the damn snow
Mr. Marty Smarty, just like you had the streets cleared for the Patriots parade.
There was plenty of snow
There was plenty of snow banks where I stood at Boylston/Arlington during that parade. I really couldn't understand where the outstanding snow removal had actually been performed. I expect this parade to go on as scheduled, snow banks and all
Staging area?
I don't even know where the staging area is during a good year, but with all the T problems, and pahhhh-kin' lawts filled with snow, I don't know where you'd line people up.
Why not just cancel the parade all together to give people more time to do what they came to Southie to do: get drunk and start fights?
A Good Thing!
So every drunk in Boston celebrates on the holiday and the days leading up to it if the truth be told and again on parade day whenever that is.
#Yay
Great idea: skip parade, straight to drinkin'!
Great suggestion! Too much time, work, money, politics, and controversy to have the parade. Skip the nonsense and just make the day a bar crawl!