On most Greek Independence Day parades, the route runs through wide parkways and formal city streets. In Baltimore, it moves through the neighborhood.
Eastern Avenue filled with blue and white on Sunday afternoon as the city’s Greek community marked Greek Independence Day in its historic Greektown.
For decades, Baltimore’s Greek community has marked March 25 with a parade through this neighborhood, and this year’s celebration showed how firmly the tradition remains rooted here. Families lined the sidewalks outside shops and tavernas along Eastern Avenue as a massive Greek flag rolled past beneath the railroad overpass and children waved smaller flags in the spring sun…