Good Old Days Magazine

St. Patrick's Tales and Traditions

St. Patrick's Day was a special time in my life when I was growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s in Iron River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. That was a day I got to spend time with my Irish grandma, Elizabeth Scott, and celebrate the “wearin’ o’ the green.”

We didn't do anything that would have been special by most people's standards, but it

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