Wednesday, March 17, 2010

St. Patrick's Day

We celebrated St Patrick's Day with our neighborhood parade that is sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. www.stlhibernians.org
Dogtown is an Irish neighborhood and several theories float around about the origin of the name. But according to Bob Corbett of the Dogtown Historical Society, the most plausible theory describes the way the landscape looked after rustic mining. They dug lots of holes with shovels. It looked like dogs dug them.

For a more in-depth and interesting article on Dogtown click here.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/dogtown/origins-2.html

Beady Smiles

Fitting In Quite Well With the Party People

Ready to Go

1 comment:

Alison said...

looks like it was a fun day