A Great Day for Bethlehem's Irish

Thousands of people, clad in green, lined W. Broad and Main streets, Bethlehem, to watch the second annual Parade of Shamrocks march on St. Patrick’s Day.

It could not have been a better afternoon for a parade in Bethlehem – sun-splashed, with clear blue skies and temperatures in the high 60s.

Lehigh University students continued to celebrate their own kind of Irish luck during the parade. A small marching band representing Lehigh punctuated their musical march with an occasional shout of “We Beat Duke!”

The marchers and hundreds of revelers were headed toward Hill-to-Hill Bridge underpass where the Celtic Cultural Alliance had set up a giant tent with the city’s biggest , featuring music, Irish dance, food and drink. The event was a sellout.