Re: REF: St. Patrick's Day

[Daniel Laurita <laurita@AIRnet.net>]

I think that there are as many legends about the "green" of St.
Patrick's Day as there are clover leaves in a field.

I was at the public library in Decatur, AL, tonight.  In the
children's section they had a large bulletin board that explained
that it came from burning the leaves and speading the ashes on the
fields to fertilize them (a custom still common throughout Europe).
The green is a remembrence of that action.

I never heard that either.

Bene e Pace,

Paula S.W. Laurita (who awaits her birthday the 13th, along with
Donald Duck's)
Athens, AL