green – Wandering Dawgs

The history of the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day parade can be traced back to 1824. This year the parade organizers are expecting an even bigger crowd than usual with the parade celebrating it’s 200th anniversary. The festivities begin well before the March 17 parade each year. Today, the Savannah parade is one of the largest in the world. Marching in the parade will be groups of families, Irish societies, floats, marching bands, pipe and drum bands, military units, and even the Budweiser Clydesdales.

People start wearing their green in early March. Green is every where you look around Savannah. The header image features the Forsyth Fountain dyed green. There will be green beer, green grits, even beards and dogs dyed green.

It’s been several years since we’ve gone to the Savannah parade. We always enjoy the festivities on nearby Tybee Island. The Tybee Island Irish Heritage usually has a parade on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day. Sadly, the parade was cancelled this year because the area was under a tornado watch.

This college includes highlights from past Tybee parades.

One of the highlights of the week is the Bahamian Junkanoo group Barabbas and the Tribe who create special costumes for the week and march in the both the Savannah and Tybee parades playing their Junkanoo music. They also perform at the Crab Shack on Tybee Island every night before the Savannah Parade.

This year’s Tybee celebration began on Friday night, March 8 with a Junkanoo parade through the Crab Shack on Tybee Island. On Saturday they will march in the 200th Savannah St. Patrick’s Day parade.

There was more green fun Tuesday night when Pipe and Drum bands from Savannah and Limerick, Ireland got together to practice on the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion.

On Saturday, March 16, 2024 the streets of Savannah will be filled with thousands of spectators dressed in green as the 200th edition of the Savannah St. Patrick’s Day takes place.

Luck of the Irish to you!

Shared with Terri’s Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Saving Daylight with Green

I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea
From the fishing boats at Dingle to the shores of Dunardee
I miss the river Shannon and the folks at Skibbereen
The moorlands and the midlands with their forty shades of green

~”Forty Shades of Green” by Johnny Cash

A year ago today was our first full day of a three week trip from the U. S. to Ireland and Scotland. One day as we toured the Ring of Kerry in Ireland, Dennis, our tour guide, played this Johnny Cash song for us.

I remembered the song this morning as I was thinking about our trip. Johnny Cash wrote it in 1959 while he was in Ireland.

We saw at least forty shades of green (and probably more) as we traveled around the beautiful Emerald Isle.