Things to do in New England over St. Paddy's weekend?

When in Boston, we always stop at South Street Diner. It's a super old and tiny diner, so carries with it that old vintage vibe. Open 24 hours.
It's not glamorous or fancy, more on the gritty side.
The food is always awesome as is the coffee, but remember it is diner food.
The staff are super cool, as long as you don't mind a little attitude.
Sol runs the joint and is usually there. He'll chat you up for an hour if you let him. Last time we were in, he turned us on to a liquor store with a killer bourbon selection.

Oh, the chocolate fantasy French toast......get it. I think that's what it's called.

-Mike

 

There's certainly scads to do in Boston itself. For the historical stuff, there's the Freedom Trail, which is kind of the standard thing that every school in the region has a field trip to do along with tourists, it meanders around all the Revolutionary sites. For music... I wouldn't even know where to start. Anything from Berklee student recitals to big concerts at the TD Garden, and there are a number of good smaller venues - I like the Middle East in Cambridge, a little rock club tucked in back of a diner. The Public Library is pretty impressive, and the MFA is a good museum, along with the smaller Gardner museum behind it. Lots of shopping... Quincy Market, Copley Place, Newbury Street.

And of course, it's Boston on St. Patrick's Day. There will be a parade and every bar in town will be going nuts.

If you want to get out into nature, I would head up the coast of Maine for seashore or up here to New Hampshire for mountains. It depends on how outdoors you want to get for a weekend... I'm going to guess you're not going camping in March when you're just in the area for a couple days. Ogunquit, Maine is a nice town and there's a walk called the Marginal Way along the shore that's popular. For a one-day thing to do in NH, maybe get up to Mount Washington and take the Cog Railway to the summit. That's the tallest mountain east of the Rockies and has a major weather station (and pretty major weather, sometimes!) at the peak.

 

If you do run up the coast as @hrodbert696 mentioned, check out York and Ogunquit. Oh yeah, Mike's in Wells has great lobster rolls.
I haven't had one, not a seafood fan, but every out of town visitor we took there loved it.

-Mike