My favorite kind of luck wafts up from the shepherd's pie you eat in a park on a warm Friday night in September. It sails out over a gathering crowd and touches each heart with its glow. Notes carry that kind of luck and they come from the cheerfullest instruments -- fiddles, flutes, bagpipes and [...]
I didn't realize Appleton had its very own leprechaun until I treated myself to a whole Saturday (and most of a Friday) at its second annual Irish Fest. What but Irish magic (and a slew of volunteers' incredibly hard work) could account for to toe-tapping, tummy-patting, pint-tipping, arm-waving, hand-clapping explosion of joy that happened all [...]