Happy Saint Patrick's Day, Greensboro Daily Photo readers! The above photo is one we have in our archive of vintage photos and postcards. It was not taken by us, nor do we think it was taken in Greensboro. We found it languishing in a Greensboro antique store. The photograph is well composed and would make a good short story for an O. Henry short story contest. Are these three sisters? Irish sisters? Are they nurses? Just friends? Just co-workers? Are they in Ireland? Ireland's version of candy stripers? Do they have relatives in Greensboro? There are so many unanswered questions about these young women who remind us of Downton Abbey's Crawley sisters.
Wherever you are, take the above trio's cue, don your shamrocks and enjoy Saint Patrick's Day. For those who have Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking, did you know that they are lifted for the holiday?* Head on out and find some Saint Patrick's Day fellowship, toast the luck of the Irish, and see if anybody you know in Greensboro is related to these fruit-peeling beauties. Greensboro may not have Chicago's kelly green river or NYC's grand parade, but there will be one hoppy, hoppin' Greater Greensboro St. Paddy's Party on Barnhardt Street tonight.
(If you know of other events, please list them in the comment section).
What a wonderful photo ( they DO look like the Crawley sisters!).
The early 1900's era is correct and it has to be somewhere Peaches grow and ripen in Spring so I would guess the Southern states...I really want to know!
Posted by: Janis of So Cal | Monday, March 17, 2014 at 06:07 PM
It does look quite old fashioned.
As the Irish would say, slainte!
Posted by: William Kendall | Monday, March 17, 2014 at 09:04 PM