Across the nation, people everywhere will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow by going to their local pubs or watering holes to take in their favorite adult beverage to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The holiday includes a massive parade that will make its way through New York City for the 249th consecutive year making it the longest-running parade in the United States.

Saint Patrick’s Day has brought with it a slew of tradition, many of which include the color green. A tour of Boston tomorrow will likely find citizens throughout the city donning green hats and other apparel while a trip to Chicago will find the river dyed green with approximately 100 pounds of vegetable dye. Oddly enough, this dyeing of the river is a privately-funded venture that continues to get more and more expensive. On the other hand, a Los Angeles tour could result in you seeing a green river, but that’s probably not vegetable dye. As kids, a lot of us remember getting pinched as being a side-effect of St. Patrick’s Day, which would inevitably happen if you weren’t wearing green on this day.

St. Patrick’s Day started in 1762 when Irish soldiers took a tour of New York City by marching and re-connecting with other fellow Irishmen in the English Army. Over the next 35 years, Irish patriotism continued to grow in the United States and with it, the popularity of this holiday, which grew even moreso when The Great Potato Famine hit in the mid-1800s. Now, people everywhere carry on with the celebration by raising a glass to each other and toasting the glorious holiday.