Decorated in green and orange Saturday, March 13, the Kalamazoo Mall was prepped for an early St. Patrickâs Day celebration. Visitors were eager to celebrate the traditional Irish holiday this year by sipping green beer, enjoying live music and walking from bar to bar.Â
If a passersby was particularly lucky, they even got a chance to visit St. Patrick and Liam the Leprechaun themselves.
See photos from the festivities that took place outside throughout the downtown mall from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Patrons walk the streets of downtown Kalamazoo with St. Patrickâs Day green beers in hand. A very different scene from just a year ago, when any festivities that had been planned were cancelled due to COVID-19.
ST PATRICK S Day will be an online celebration this year. So as we have to do without the parade, the pageantry, and the festivities, we have asked a number of Galwegians to share their memories of St Patrick s Day parades from years gone by.
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