Melting Snow

Since I was raise as a Protestant (specifically Southern Baptist) in middle America (Oklahoma) the only thing I did to celebrate St. Patrick's day was to wear green. I wore green to school or any place else I went on March 17 as a self defiance measure. If I didn't wear green on that day someone would pinch me and I, like a piece of ripe fruit, bruise easily. I didn't learn until I heard the Irish Rovers sing "The Orange and The Green" that in Ireland wearing green meant you were Catholic and Orange Protestant. I doubt that it would have made any more of a difference to me as a child then it does today.