The older people looked serious and earnest, or maybe they were sad
I’m in Manhattan in March 1995. It’s my third time in New York but the first with my wife, Louise. The other visits were as a young photographer from the Longford Leader, covering the annual dinner dance of New York’s Longford Men’s Association in Woodside, Queens – nights of group shots and what we call “grip and grins”. During those visits, I hadn’t made it into Manhattan to see the parade.
It actually felt kind of dull. There were bands, bagpipes and some baton twirling, but it was mainly people walking behind county banners. Younger Irish-Americans were more interested in “wetting the shamrock”, drinking openly and goofing around. It wasn’t pretty. Older people waited quietly to join the parade from the side streets off Fifth Avenue, many wore sashes indicating various levels of importance.
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