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My New Orleans
03/01/2021
March is arguably New Orleans’ best month. Lately it has also been the most picked on. Though there is stiff competition from February and April, March is the culturally richest month, especially toward the middle when St. Patrick’s and St. Joseph’s feasts are two days apart and the weekends that surround them are busy with parades honoring the Sicilians and the Irish. The parades themselves are influenced by the New Orleans style with occasional floats, bead tossing, and, in the case of the Irish, the heaving of cabbages. (The leafy heads are the largest items thrown from local parades though the second place Zulu coconuts are heavier projectiles.)