PHOTOS: 2018 St. Patrick’s Day Parade Celebrates Heritage & Community

For many of those who lined the parade route for the 30th annual Bucks County St. Patrick’s Day parade, the procession was as much about tradition as it was about dancers, bands and candy.

Larry and Tracey Schrey live in the North Park neighborhood of Levittown and look forward to the parade every year. The couple has been coming to the parade regularly for nearly 15 years with kids and grandchildren in tow. The two look forward to the parade every year, they said.

“It is a rally around the community,” Larry said.

“There are a lot of people in it that we know, it is just a great community event,” Tracey said.

Others have been coming to the parade for many years, but this year the parade has special significance. Aimee and Joe Vingless come to the celebration of community and Irish heritage with their kids. This year, the couple’s daughter, Charli was a baton thrower who marched from Conwell-Egan High School in Bristol Township to Amelia Drive in Falls Township.

“It’s a good energy,” Aimee said.

“It feels so good to get out and watch it,” said Rae Murphy, a resident of Gallilee Village who walks to the parade with her neighbor, Saul Chernow, each year.

“I like that it brings people out,” she said.

While there was snow on the ground, the weather was about average for the annual parade.

 

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