St. Paddy’s Day in Baton Rouge might as well be called an LSU game day. People drink early, tailgate all day, and get lost in the crowd.
Come 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 14, the Wearin’ of the Green parade rolls through the Hundred Oaks and Perkins Road area. For months, parade enthusiasts worried repairs to the Perkins Road overpass were going to hamper the annual street party. But construction has been delayed until a month after the parade.
Grand Marshal Dick Bourke of Dublin, Ireland, will preside over the bacchanalia, the fourth grand marshal brought over from the Old Country. “He’s a direct descendent of Mickey Hickey, one of the great revolutionary leaders of Ireland,” parade founder Pat Shingleton says.