At the St. Patty's Day Parade - Albany NY

**frank_a** · 15th March 14, 09:09 PM

St. Andrews Society members and guests enjoyed the parade from the front of our brownstone building in downtown Albany Saturday. A blustery day (45F/7C, windy, partly sunny, mostly cloudy), but the streets were packed, open containers plentiful, and the City really turned out for a bit of fun.

I continue to mix up my outfit, trying for a highland look on a cool windy day. Only a few others at the Society were kilted, and a few spectators, but mostly the pipe and drum bands. They keep the kilt industry going, I assume!

Happy St. Patty's Day all!

Frank

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**OC Richard** · 16th March 14, 05:08 AM

Wow... we were near 90 degrees yesterday, and you have snow?! Crazy weather!

BTW "Paddy" is short for Patrick, "Patty" is short for Patricia. "Pat" works for either, though I've heard "Pad" for Patrick too. Maybe it's because the Irish spelling uses d rather than t (Padraig). Sorry for sounding pedantic, but it's one of those misspellings that's becoming more and more popular (in the USA).

BTW a kilt-related trivia thing: one of the very few surviving 79th New York (Cameron Highlanders) uniforms is (or was) on display at the National Guard museum in Albany (now at Saratoga Springs?). It's a postwar (post-1865) uniform, having numerous differences with the prewar and wartime uniform, but nevertheless it's shown in many books on Civil War uniforms.