Must-see TV: No parade? No problem! Wearin of the Green TV special Saturday on WBRZ
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BATON ROUGE – The city’s iconic St. Patrick’s Day celebration will continue in 2021, although it won’t include thousands upon thousands of people lining the streets of Hundred Oaks and the Perkins Road Overpass area – that’ll come later.
In 2021, amid a city lockdown on event permits and concerns, though easing, of spreading COVID, the annual Wearin’ of the Green Parade will be seen as a telecast featuring memorable moments of the parade’s three-decade history and stories organizers have never revealed before about the parade’s history and how it became one of the biggest events in Baton Rouge.
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The History It s more than a parade, it s the recognition of the Patron Saint of Ireland and the relationship of our City and our State with the country or Ireland. Seven of our Grand Marshals from Killarney, Ireland have enjoyed this parade and the reason I selected the title: The wearin of the Green to further identify that commitment from 1916 and today. We begin our parade at the heart of the Diocese of Baton Rouge - The Catholic Life Center and this is where it concludes. For thousands on the parade route from South Acadian to Hundred Oaks to South Eugene to Terrace to Perkins Road folks gather for reunions, family gatherings, and even weddings for the Wearin of the Green.