Happy Evacuation Day!!

Besides St. Patrick's Day, there is another holiday that is celebrated today. Evacuation Day. I had no idea about this holiday until I moved to Boston where it is a HUGE deal. The government offices in the city shut down for the day in honor of this event. But what is "Evacuation Day"? It marks the day that the British left Boston to head down to New York, thereby "evacuating" the city. The fact that the holiday "conveniently" falls on St. Patrick's Day I don't think it is due to chance. There is such a large Irish contingency in Boston and the city of a whole just makes a HUGE deal of it with a big parade and lots of pubs that I think that the city was happy to have a historical reason to justify having the day off. So Happy Evacuation Day! And St. Patrick's Day!!!