Day Ten: Life in Italy under lockdown. The wailing of the green

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. It has never been much of a holiday in Italy but I grew up on the east coast of the US where it WAS a big deal. In New York and Boston there were parades and parties and lots and lots of beer. Green beer.

My Italian husband was curious about this custom when we lived in the States. Unlike Italy, the US is not predominantly…