Friends, we're getting to that time of year where your
favorite Peasant takes his annual Irish holiday --- well,
I go to the Milwaukee Irish Fest in mid-August. I've
said it before and I'll repeat: our Irish Fest is the next
best thing to traveling to Ireland itself!
The Emerald Isle comes to Milwaukee in the form of
the largest Irish festival in the world, with musicians,
singers, actors, scholars, chefs (yes, there are Irish chefs!
Don't be so surprised!) storytellers, puppeteers, dog
shows (featuring Irish breeds of course!) and merchandise
so incredible that it is a heavenly joy to have it here for
us to buy for gifts and for our own enjoyment!).
We also have an Irish mass on Sunday morning with
celebrants from Eire herself!
We'll get together again right after Irish Fest and resume
our discussing the political and economic news of the
day. In the meantime, may the road rise to meet you and
all those lovely Irish blessings for you too!
By the by, this post is the 700th post on PWAP! It's been
a supreme pleasure to get together with you, my wonderful,
grand, and treasured readers every week to go over the news
of the day and see what the inhabitants of the halls and offices
of power are doing for or to us, to commend them when they
do right by us and to clobber them (so to speak) when they
do us wrong. And we shall have so much more to pore over
in the time to come, especially with the mid-term elections
coming soon! See you when I return from Irish Fest!
MEM
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