BOSTON—Throngs of green-clad, shamrock-festooned revelers filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city on Sunday for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Green, white, and orange confetti—the national colors of the Emerald Isle—rained down along parts of the 3.5-mile route. Parade floats and marchers wound through the neighborhood of South Boston, a center of Irish-American heritage in a city where more than 1 in every 5 people are of Irish descent.
Camryn Craddock was among those along the parade route, which included parts of Broadway, the neighborhood’s thoroughfare.
“I just like the energy that everyone brings. Everyone’s really hyped up. It’s not boring,” the Massachusetts resident said. “I didn’t even really see much of the parade, but just seeing everyone having fun was really nice and everything.”…