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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Mucky Duck St. Andrews Day Celebration With Emily Dugas
Wednesday, November 30, 8pm, $10
Mucky Duck St. Andrews Day Celebration With Emily Dugas
Band
Most of the people sitting at the bar here with me are
aware of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, who is
credited as being the one who gathered up all the snakes in
the country into his minivan under the ruse of a weekend
holiday and drove them instead to west Texas, thereby
enabling all peoples Irish to wander about Ireland barefoot
without fear of rattling snakes and boa constriction.
However, few people are aware of Scotland's patron saint,
St. Andrew.
The story goes that Andrew, a Galilean fisherman, preached
the Gospel in the lands around the Black Sea and in Greece
for which he was eventually crucified on an X-shaped cross
in Patras. The geography of his mission explains the
balalaika, for Andrew is indeed the patron saint of Russia
and of Greece as well as of Scotland. The association with
a land he never set foot on is, not surprisingly, based on
a number of conflicting legends, the most colourful of
which is the story of St. Rule.
My favored legend is that three hundred years after
Andrew's martyrdom the Roman Emperor Constantine,ordered
that the saint's bones should be moved from Patras to his
new capital city of Constantinople.
Before the order was carried out a monk called St. Rule had
a dream in which an angel told him to take what bones of
Andrew's he could to 'the ends of the earth' for safe-
keeping. St. Rule duly took what he could and after an epic
journey with the aforementioned assortment was shipwrecked
on the east coast of Scotland - which he deemed the 'ends
of the earth'! But the whereabouts of the relics is
unknown.
Whatever the veracity of these ancient legends, St. Andrews
Day is a day to celebrate all things Scottish.
Many people wonder what they should eat on St. Andrew's
day. Because Andrew was a fisherman, it seems appropriate
to eat fish (and chips). Otherwise you could eat any
traditional Scottish food. It used to be that a singed
sheep's head was traditional, but they are really hard to
find and harder to cook.
The Duck will be celebrating St. Andrew's Day featuring the
music of the Emily Dugas band, dance, Scottish food and and
possibly grog.
McGonigel’s Mucky Duck • 2425 Norfolk • Houston, Texas
77098 713-528-5999
Mucky Duck St. Andrews Day Celebration With Emily Dugas
Band
Most of the people sitting at the bar here with me are
aware of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, who is
credited as being the one who gathered up all the snakes in
the country into his minivan under the ruse of a weekend
holiday and drove them instead to west Texas, thereby
enabling all peoples Irish to wander about Ireland barefoot
without fear of rattling snakes and boa constriction.
However, few people are aware of Scotland's patron saint,
St. Andrew.
The story goes that Andrew, a Galilean fisherman, preached
the Gospel in the lands around the Black Sea and in Greece
for which he was eventually crucified on an X-shaped cross
in Patras. The geography of his mission explains the
balalaika, for Andrew is indeed the patron saint of Russia
and of Greece as well as of Scotland. The association with
a land he never set foot on is, not surprisingly, based on
a number of conflicting legends, the most colourful of
which is the story of St. Rule.
My favored legend is that three hundred years after
Andrew's martyrdom the Roman Emperor Constantine,ordered
that the saint's bones should be moved from Patras to his
new capital city of Constantinople.
Before the order was carried out a monk called St. Rule had
a dream in which an angel told him to take what bones of
Andrew's he could to 'the ends of the earth' for safe-
keeping. St. Rule duly took what he could and after an epic
journey with the aforementioned assortment was shipwrecked
on the east coast of Scotland - which he deemed the 'ends
of the earth'! But the whereabouts of the relics is
unknown.
Whatever the veracity of these ancient legends, St. Andrews
Day is a day to celebrate all things Scottish.
Many people wonder what they should eat on St. Andrew's
day. Because Andrew was a fisherman, it seems appropriate
to eat fish (and chips). Otherwise you could eat any
traditional Scottish food. It used to be that a singed
sheep's head was traditional, but they are really hard to
find and harder to cook.
The Duck will be celebrating St. Andrew's Day featuring the
music of the Emily Dugas band, dance, Scottish food and and
possibly grog.
McGonigel’s Mucky Duck • 2425 Norfolk • Houston, Texas
77098 713-528-5999
