Ess Bee<p>New Blog Post:</p><p><a href="https://handmade.social/tags/StPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StPatricksDay</span></a> In <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Winchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Winchester</span></a></p><p>Despite <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Winchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Winchester</span></a> having a fairly sizable proportion of <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Irish</span></a> settlers, <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/SaintPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaintPatricksDay</span></a> has generally been a low-key affair for the town. Before <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/CelticFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CelticFest</span></a> became an annual downtown event, organized <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/StPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StPatricksDay</span></a> celebrations were more informal affairs. The earliest mention I was able to find (so far) even mentioning the day in a local publication was in the <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/WinchesterRepublican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WinchesterRepublican</span></a>, March 29, 1834: <a href="https://reliconthelethe.blogspot.com/2025/03/st-patricks-day-in-winchester.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reliconthelethe.blogspot.com/2</span><span class="invisible">025/03/st-patricks-day-in-winchester.html</span></a></p>