Article: Gotta wear green on Evacuation Day.(Editorial)

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The Boston Herald
Article date:
March 14, 2003
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Byline: Thomas M. KEANE, Jr.

Ahh, Evacuation Day!

Around town, everyone is sporting Evacuation Day shamrocks, bartenders are busy doctoring their beer Evacuation Day green, and South Boston is in the last, frantic stages of preparing for its mammoth Evacuation Day parade.

OK, maybe not. Evacuation Day, admits William Fowler of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is little known and little remembered, an event that "sounds like a medical procedure."

Indeed, cynics claim, the day is just a ruse, a cover for the Irish-American celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

And they're right. The rise of the holiday coincides neatly with ...

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