03/18/08 - "It's great," Eddie Collins told the Greenwich Time about the event. "I marched in it last year."

Amelia Bruno claps in time to bagpipe music at the St. Patrick’s Day celebration yesterday at the Nathaniel Witherell.
(Helen Neafsey/Greenwich Time Staff photo)

Green is the theme for Witherell residents

By Hoa Nguyen
Greenwich Time - Staff Writer

Four grand marshals, a line of Irish bagpipers, cups of green ginger ale, plates of buttered Irish soda bread and plenty of twinkling eyes and smiling faces were on hand for yesterday's annual St. Patrick's Day parade at The Nathaniel Witherell.

People, wheelchairs and walkers packed both sides of the parade route as bagpipers made their way into the nursing home's social hall. In the front of the room were the grand marshals, Alice and Eddie Collins, Kathy Kavanagh and Mary McHugh, who also are the four oldest Irish residents at the nursing home....

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