Thu 3/17
For the past two years, Cleveland’s biggest and most diverse parade has been missing in action due to the pandemic (it was the first major event cancelled in March 2020). So its return on a perfect spring day, with sun and temperatures in the 60s, brought out an enormous, and enormously happy, crowd of all ages, races and ethnicities — most of them not Irish but happily wearing green.
As usual, the parade featured a cross-section of northeast Ohio, with a delegation of elected officials including new Mayor Justin Bibb and Congresswoman Shontel Brown, firefighters and police with their magpie, fife and drum ensembles, high school marching bands, Irish dance schools, Chinese dragon dancers, businesses, labor unions, animals ranging from alpacas to Irish wolfhounds to City Dogs’ rescue dogs to therapy ponies, and organizations such as the Cleveland and Lake Metroparks, the Cleveland Public Library, the Cleveland Asian Festival and the Cleveland Guardians.
View the PHOTOSTREAM here.
