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SEATTLE'S GREEN STRIPE LAYING
named in memory of John Doyle Bishop
7 pm - 8 pm, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012
The Green Stripe is a mini-Parade to put a green stripe down the center of 4th Ave, to mark the route of the St. Patrick's Day Parade. It is always held the evening before the Parade which in 2011 will be on Saturday, March 12.
So the 2011 Green Stripe will be painted starting at 7 pm on Friday, March 12. The stripe will follow the Parade route from 4th Ave at Jefferson up to Westlake Park, a distance of about one mile.
Most participants gather at F X McRory's at 6:30 PM to ride the Flat-bed Truck up to Prefontaine Park. There's no admission fee and children and familes are very welcome to ride the covered truck!
At Westlake, we paint a large shamrock and then hold an impromptu Crossroads Céili dance. Each year, anyone and everyone is invited to come along for the 'craic' – an Irish (Gaelic) word meaning “a lot of fun”.
For more
information, call 206-548-9859,
or
email GreenStripe@irishclub.org.
Here are some photos from the 2008 and other
JOHN DOYLE
BISHOP MEMORIAL
GREEN STRIPES
Loading up the flat-bed truck outside McRory's
Grand Marsal John Bruton and Galway Mayor Tom Costello couldn't resist taking a photo of one of the participants
We're just about ready to
start!
The TV crews want information on what's going on
Drawing the official Shamrock in Westlake Park
Mick
McHugh and other participants riding the flatbed truck
with the cans
of
spray paint that were used to mark the St. Patrick's
Day Parade route.
Mud
McHugh with a bunch of Californians!
Piper
Jim McGilivray.
Dignataries
marching the clearly marked, although somewhat wobbly,
Parade
route the following day in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
For
information on the Green Stripe, call
Heather
Murphy at 206-548-9859, or email
Heather at GreenStripe@irishclub.org.
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