Bonnie Vaughan CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers Lackawanna & Surrounding Counties

Scranton Pa St Patricks Day parade is toted to be the 1st or 2nd largest in the country depending on who you talk to.

On Saturday March 10 ,2012 Scranton Pa was decked out totally in green. Every body had one day to be Irish. The 51 st annual parade began promptly at the conclusion of mass held at St Peters Cathedral. The bells pealing at 11:45 am signals the kick off to the festivities.

This years crowd was estimated at between 140,000 and 150,000 people. The parade route extends through the city for a mile. An estimated 12,000 people march, deck out floats and participate in the parade.

Even the dogs get included. Greyhound and Pitbull rescue dogs march in the parade.

Here companion and guide dogs along with handlers march down the street.

Vendors begin to set up in the wee hours of the morning of parade day. They sell parade buttons, shirts, glasses and all manner of Irish regalia.

The action actually begins before the parade starts. Restaurants and bars are open early serving breakfast and green libations.

The parade last about 3 hours but the action does not stop there. Bagpipers, Irish bands, Step Dancers and assorted Irish entertainment stroll the streets after the parade and into the night.

They have various destinations where they stop and put on a show. The merriment continues on into the early morning hours of Sunday.

Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home. Come and visit Clarks Summit and see for yourself. It's a community that beckons you to stay. No matter what your lifestyle you can find the perfect home to settle down in.

Clarks Summit is also referred to as The Abingtons. Several communities nestled together within a stones throw of all major highways.

Clarks Green, Waverly, Clarks Summit, Newton, Ransom, Glenburn, South Abington, Dalton and Chinchilla are all local communities in the Abington School District.

Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home because no matter where you need to be, you can get there easily. Located at the end of the northeast turnpike extension, the Philadelphia area is a few hours drive. Easy access to I-81 takes you north to New York or south to Wilkes Barre and beyond. I-81 is also your link to 380 - I84 and I80. New York City and New Jersey are easily accessible.

Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home and have shopping at your fingertips. Downtown Clarks Summit is a wonderful place to leisurely stroll the quaint shops. A few minutes drive takes you to every imaginable service you require. Restaurants abound in the area from fast food to gourmet.

Ask anyone who has school age children what they think of the school system in the Clarks Summit Pa area. The Abington school district has been know to strive for excellence and achievement. Look at their ratings on the internet.

If recreation is important to you Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home. Beautiful state and local parks are nearby. Skiing, water parks, boating, fishing, hunting, concert venues, sports venues and more are minutes away.

Home prices can start in the 100's and continue to over 1 million. Whether your dream is a quaint home on a tree lined street or an opulent hilltop estate you can find it in Clarks Summit, Pa.

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Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home. Come and visit Clarks Summit and see for yourself. It's a community that beckons you to stay. No matter what your lifestyle you can find the perfect home to settle down in.

Clarks Summit is also referred to as The Abingtons.

Several communities nestled together within a stones throw of all major highways.

• Clarks Green, Waverly, Clarks Summit, Newton, Ransom, Glenburn, South Abington, Dalton and Chinchilla are all local communities in the Abington School District.
  

Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home because no matter where you need to be, you can get there easily. Located at the end of the northeast turnpike extension, the Philadelphia area is a few hours drive. Easy access to I-81 takes you north to New York or south to Wilkes Barre and beyond. I-81 is also your link to 380 - I84 and I80. New York City and New Jersey are easily accessible.

Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home and have shopping at your fingertips. Downtown Clarks Summit is a wonderful place to leisurely stroll the quaint shops. A few minutes drive takes you to every imaginable service you require. Restaurants abound in the area from fast food to gourmet.

Ask anyone who has school age children what they think of the school system in the Clarks Summit Pa area. The Abington school district has been know to strive for excellence and achievement. Look at their ratings on the internet.

If recreation is important to you Clarks Summit Pa is a great place to buy a home. Beautiful state and local parks are nearby. Skiing, water parks, boating, fishing, hunting, concert venues, sports venues and more are minutes away.

Home prices can start in the 100's and continue to over 1 million. Whether your dream is a quaint home on a tree lined street or an opulent hilltop estate you can find it in Clarks Summit, Pa.

Click the link to see all the 3 bedroom 2 bath homes currently on the market in Clarks Summit Pa. 3 Bedroom Homes Clarks Summit.

To refine your search for other Clarks Summit homes click the link Scranton Pa Homes For Sale. Select the MLS search on our website. Then select Advanced.

Sometimes I'm in awe or utterly amazed when I read quotes from our forefathers or historical figures I admire.

• I've always been a big fan of John F Kennedy. Tonight I was scrolling through some of his quotes. I found he had a typical dry New England sense of humor.

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
John F. Kennedy

• JFK believed in in our freedoms and our liberty. He was not boastful about our resolve, but stated it fairly simply.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
John F. Kennedy

• One quote caught my eye tonight as we sit and debate who will oppose the current President.

I'm not always the most articulate person in the world. I've been trying to say this as we kick around Cain, Romney, Perry and the rest. Perhaps JFK saw our future much clearer then we realize.

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.

Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

John F. Kennedy

After reading these old guys in wigs, one must ask if they possessed a crystal ball?

"I Can See Clearly Now" must have been a pop standard in the 1700's

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.

If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and
daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live..
We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers.

Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.

This is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson

How could seemingly ordinary men commit to writing over 200 years ago, that which we see today? It would seem the country got stupider the older it became.