Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[Jeff Wrangler]

Are you sure they know its St. Patrick's Day?

Actually, I just saw a TV news report about a big parade in Dublin, so, yeah, they know it's St. Patrick's Day.

[southendmd]

I wondered the same thing and so researched it before coming here.  They do indeed celebrate here, but they don't dye the river green like in Boston.  And there are a lot of Americans and other foreign visitors.

Aw, c'mon, we haven't dyed the river green in yeahs.

Plus, it's all them Hahvahd and MIT boys that do that.  And they got bettah things to do these days.

Most of the Irish folk around Boston just have their traditional boiled dinner of corned beef, cabbage and potatoes (pronounced p'daydahs).  A little Guiness never hurt no one, either.

[southendmd]

Ah, so that's what you sound like.   

I haven't seen the green river myself, but my step-mom told me of visiting Boston and thinking that the river was just very polluted until someone set her straight.

Well, the Charles River was polluted at one time, inspiring the Red Sox anthem "Dirty Water" by the Standells.  Here's the song and a nice little tour of "our fair city":

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tJL4Qf4qpQ[/youtube]

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Wow that was nice. I liked Boston, it reminded me a bit of London, but much cleaner.

[loneleeb3]

That was so cool!
I recognized a lot of those places.
I think one of the most moving and interesting things I saw while in Boston was the holocost memorial down by the markets.
I also loved the Paul Revere trail. I asked what the red lines were going across the street. When my brother in law told me I thought how cool it was to actually be standing where Paul Revere took his Midnight ride!
What a great City!! 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

That Holocaust memorial was really impressive, all those names etched on glass. I saw it at night and it was lit up, very powerful.

[southendmd]

That Holocaust memorial was really impressive, all those names etched on glass. I saw it at night and it was lit up, very powerful.

It really is moving.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Thats right it was serial numbers. It had a very calming effect as I recall. 

[loneleeb3]

It really is moving.

The coolest thing about it is it's right there in the middle of everything. your walking down the sidewalk and BAM!
There is this memorial to one of the most horrific events in human history. Just qutietly standing there unassuming yet impossible to ignore.
To think, each of those numbers was a person, a mother, father ,sister ,brother, child,friend.
It boggles the mind and hurts the heart.

[CellarDweller]

“There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”

Alan Paton