"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Listen to "Killaloe," quick march of the Royal Irish Regiment, through the kindness of John Cahill.
Elsewhere: The Bagpipes & Drums of the Emerald Society, Chicago Police * Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, FDNY
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Who knew St Patrick's Day was such a big deal in Savannah, where each year on the holiday city fountains run green?
I've got to tell you, the longer winter drags on, the more appealingSavannah becomes. One visitor notes with approval the jungle-like foliage of the city's old homes, one visitor observes:
[A] truly fine house can only be entered with the aid of a machete.
After a hundred inches of snow, that works for me.
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My goodness, my Guinness:Poster art by John Gilroy.
Fr. Ethan might appreciate a scene at the end of Ford's Rio Grande: The US Cavalry has just come to the rescue of a wagonload of children held hostage by hostile Apaches in a Mexican mission chapel, and little Margaret Mary, played by Zuzu from It's a Wonderful Life, and Victor McLaglen's Sgt. Major Quincannon are hightailing it to safety – but on their way out of the church they make sure to genuflect and cross themselves. Nice touch.
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