Patrick S Day Parade

Marching bands, leprechauns, mummers, floats and equestrians will be among the attractions at Baltimore's 41st annual St. Patrick's Parade. The parade starts at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Washington Monument and heads south on Charles Street, then east on Pratt Street to NationsBank Plaza, 34 Market Place. For information, call (410) 837-0685.In yesterday's LIVE, the incorrect day was listed for the St. Patrick's Day parade as well as the Department of Recreation and Parks' free holiday celebration, which takes place noon to 1 p.m. Monday at Broadway Market Square.

St. Patrick's Day ParadePut on your favorite green outfit and celebrate the luck of the Irish on Saturday in Ocean City. Watch as the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade makes its way from 61st Street to the 45th Street Village. Join in the festivities as the 45th Street Village abounds with Irish folk musicians, singers, step dancers and traditional fare.The parade begins at noon Saturday at 61st Street and Coastal Highway in Ocean City. Festival continues until 6 p.m. The Delmarva Irish-American Club sponsors the free event.

In yesterday's LIVE, the incorrect day was listed for the St. Patrick's Day parade as well as the Department of Recreation and Parks' free holiday celebration, which takes place noon to 1 p.m. Monday at Broadway Market Square.Pub Date: 3/14/97

John W. Duffy, 89, an Irish immigrant who directed the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade for nearly two decades, died Sunday in Branford, Conn., six days before his beloved parade.He was a longtime New York Transit Authority supervisor and a naturalized United States citizen, but to the Ancient Order of Hibernians and other sponsors of the annual parade, he was forever Mr. Ireland.From 1966 to 1983, he was the man with the sash and the cigar, identifying him as the chairman of the parade formation committee.

Green-eyed sisters Claire Kratz and Peggy Shenton waved from their traditional corner. Mike O'Shea served up Guinness stout and witticisms. And the governor of Maryland donned a shamrock colored sweater.Braving the chilly, dreary afternoon, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Baltimore yesterday to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in true style: With a big parade and displays of Irish culture.Green was the color of the day, and everyone from Gov. Parris N. Glendening to schoolchildren in marching bands wore some shade of it. The keening of bagpipes echoed along the parade route, where young and old watched, decked out in heavy sweaters, leprechaun hats and shamrock stickers.

Hyman Aaron Pressman, the tightfisted guardian of the municipal treasury for nearly three decades, was buried yesterday amid fond farewells to his style, honesty and yes, even his poetry.More than 500 people gathered at Sol Levinson & Bros. Inc. funeral home in Northwest Baltimore to bid farewell to Mr. Pressman, 81, who was city comptroller from 1963 until 1991. Mr. Pressman died Friday of Alzheimer's disease at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital.The chapel at the funeral home at 6010 Reisterstown Road was packed with former mayors, state and city officials, U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes and many members of Shaarei Zion Congregation, where Mr. Pressman worshiped for 50 years.

A photo caption Monday on the Maryland section front incorrectly identified the group to which the cheerleader belonged. The cheerleader belongs to Maryland You Are Beautiful, which was participating in Sunday's St. Patrick's Day parade.The Sun regrets the errors.

NEW ORLEANS -- The Decatur Street St. Patrick's Day parade -- the first of this month's many Irish festivities in New Orleans -- took place last Friday, and the celebration continues with only one distant, discordant note: "I don't go along with this holier-than-thou stuff," said parade organizer Jim Monaghan. "Sexual orientation doesn't matter to us."After watching on TV this week as John "Whacko" Hurley, president of the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, defended a decision to cancel the St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston rather than let a gay group march, Mr. Monaghan said, "I think it's sad Mr. Hurley doesn't realize these people are somebody's children."

Irish smiles and sunshine beamed across downtown Baltimore yesterday.A crowd estimated by police at 50,000 (all of them Irish, of course) gathered along Charles Street for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, swaying to the rousing melodies of bagpipe bands, waving at men marching in tartan kilts and cheering for young girls kicking up their heels in kelly green dresses."

Do you have the recession blues? Try going green for the weekend. St. Patrick's Day green. A host of local venues and groups are holding events from parades to races to other forms of merrymaking. The biggest event of the season is the Baltimore St. Patrick's Day Parade. In its 53rd year, it starts at the Washington Monument on Charles Street at 2 p.m. Sunday. "Few know that Baltimore was the second-largest port of entry for Irish immigration - second only to New York," said Chris Gummer, who plays in the Fire Brigade Pipes and Drums of Greater Baltimore and has marched in the parade for 12 years.

Andrew Edward Bradley Sr., who served in two theaters of war with the Army's 32nd Signal Light Construction Battalion during World War II and later was a Western Union communication technician, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Odenton resident was 91. Mr. Bradley, the son of Irish immigrants, was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and raised in Blue Anchor, N.J. After graduating from Hammonton High School, he moved to Baltimore in the 1930s and went to work for Western Union.

Do you have the recession blues? Try going green for the weekend. St. Patrick's Day green. A host of local venues and groups are holding events from parades to races to other forms of merrymaking. The biggest event of the season is the Baltimore St. Patrick's Day Parade. In its 53rd year, it starts at the Washington Monument on Charles Street at 2 p.m. Sunday. "Few know that Baltimore was the second-largest port of entry for Irish immigration - second only to New York," said Chris Gummer, who plays in the Fire Brigade Pipes and Drums of Greater Baltimore and has marched in the parade for 12 years.

Once a year, on the day of Baltimore's St. Patrick's Day parade, Ann Mooney doesn't want to be known as Ann Mooney. She is Ann Donohoe Mooney - adding her maiden name as a declaration of her Irish heritage on her father's side. Her loyalty to yesterday's parade was declaration enough. Every year, Mooney comes to the same spot on Charles Street between Centre and Hamilton streets with her friend, Kitt Rogers, and enough children to fill a classroom. Mooney remembers when it was just her and her husband (and their puppy, Guinness)

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., On the morning of the 49th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, clouds blocked the sun. A chill permeated the air. It was, in a word, bleak. But just before the clock struck 2 p.m., when the sousaphones finished lining up along Centre Street, mercurial March came through with blue skies and sunshine. Though temperatures still hovered in the low 40s, the sun stuck around for most of the parade. It was a stroke of luck to those bundled up in green on the sidelines.

Maryland Court bars officials in gay marriage case A group of elected officials opposed to same-sex marriage cannot become defendants in the hot-button lawsuit filed by nine couples who want the state's ban on gay marriage erased, Maryland's highest court ruled yesterday. The decision, issued by the Maryland Court of Appeals a day after it heard arguments and with no opinion detailing its reasoning, returns the lawsuit to Baltimore City Circuit Court, where the same-sex couples sued five court clerks last July who refused them marriage licenses.

As the years pass and the crowds grow, some things about Baltimore's St. Patrick's Day Parade seem to have become immutable, as if required by city ordinance: Scottish pipers always outnumber Irish pipers. Every marching band plays "Danny Boy" at least once. The weather is usually as gray and blustery as a gale blowing in from the Irish Sea. Politicians get more cheers when they have Irish names. And Mike MacIntyre's fluffy dog Seamus, an Irish soft-coated wheaten terrier, is always dyed green, so a lot of people take his picture.

On the corner of downtown Baltimore's Pleasant and Charles streets, not far from their car stocked with coolers of beer and other goodies, not far from Mick O'Shea's pub where proprietor Michael O'Shea offers running commentary -- this is where you'll find Linda and Paul Aires during every St. Patrick's Day parade. They've been doing this for 30 years or so, they figure. So despite a little rain -- OK, a lot of rain -- the Aireses were back at their favorite spot yesterday, watching the bagpipes and drum corps, the cloggers and the step dancers make their way through the city during the 46th annual parade.

St. Patrick's Day Parade Celebrate the luck of the Irish Sunday at the 46th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Baltimore. Beginning at 2 p.m., tip your hat to about 100 bands, marching units, leprechauns and floats, including the Baltimore Marching Ravens, the Monumental City Ancient Fife and Drum Corps, the Washington Scottish Pipe Band, the McKean Highlander Marching Band and the Chesapeake Caledonian Pipe Band. The parade steps off at Centre and Charles streets, proceeds south along Charles to Pratt Street, turns left and disbands at Market Place.

`Tchotchkes!' at Jewish Museum They're knick-knacks and mementos that adorn homes, offices and cars, and yet they're much more than that. When "Tchotchkes! Treasures of the Family Museum" opens Sunday at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd St., visitors to the exhibit will discover that seemingly trivial collectibles not only have important personal meaning but also can reflect ethnic identity. On view through Sept. 24, the exhibit includes almost 1,000 colorful items, ranging from Israeli olive wood camels and faux Jewish-themed Macca Beans to Ten Commandments salt and pepper shakers and Jerusalem snow globes.

St. Patrick's Day parade Head to York, Pa., Saturday for an early St. Patrick's Day parade. Area bands will play, and the Irishtown Fire Co. will drive through with its green fire trucks. The parade will also feature clowns, antique cars, television personalities, elected officials and more. Before and after the parade, there will be other events for the family, including storytelling, Irish dancing, a concert and an Irish sing-along. The York St. Patrick's Day parade will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday at Market and Penn streets and continue along Market Street to Queen Street, York, Pa. Free.