Krewe of Eve
Location: Mandeville, LA
Date: February 13 , 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Floats: 26
Bands: 10
Membership Size: 500
Year Founded: 1986
Queen Eve 2009: Mrs. Kimberly D. Murphy King Adam 2009: Mr. John E. Murphy Float Designer: Blaine Kern
Krewe Website: www.kreweofeve.com
Throws Include:
Krewe of Eve Slap Bracelets, Lighted Coin Necklace, Lighted Heart Necklace, Signature Apple Beads, Eve Plush Dolls, Eve Logo Items include - wands, swords, frisbees, footballs, cups, koozies.
Also look for
the riders costumes which are krewe members decorate sweat suits to create their
own colorful costume which is unique to the Krewe of Eve.
Unique to the Krewe of Eve, krewe members decorate sweat suits to create their own colorful costume.
the Krewe of Eve History
In 1986, six local residents decided to form a ladies' Mardi Gras Parade Krewe. After many weeks of gathering information, they gave a party and invited local women. From this gathering, the Krewe of Eve started with 260 ladies.
The Krewe of Eve first paraded in Mandeville on February 14, 1987, with their first theme, "Famous Lovers" and on January 25th, 2008, with over 546 members, the Krewe of Eve presented its twenty-second parade, with the theme, "Eve's Fascination with Animation."
While the Krewe of Eve is noted for it's beautiful parade, Eve members also participate in many community projects. Eve members contribute, through Eve, to Toys for Tots and The Food Bank. We have helped with Habitat for Humanity with the Women's Build; we're part of the D.A.R.E. convention and are also a member of the West St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce.
About the Book Never before has the history of the Mardi Gras celebration been looked at this way. Errol Laborde focuses on the first 60 years of the organized celebration in New Orleans, a period that bridges the premiere parade of the Mistick Krewe of Comus and the founding of the Zulu organization. Along the way he discovers fascinating characters; including a poetic journalist who survived a bloody attack, an archduke looking for fun and a would-be king finding religion. Laborde also links an African War with Custer¹s Last Stand and disproves some of the conventional wisdom about Carnival¹s early history. This is the most important contemporary book on early Carnival history. And it fun to read too.
about Errol Laborde Errol Laborde is the Editor-in-Chief of Renaissance Publishing Company. In that capacity he serves as Editor/Associate Publisher of New Orleans Magazine and Editor/ Publisher of Louisiana Life Magazine.He also oversees several other company publications, including St. Charles Avenue and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles.
Laborde is producer and a regular panelist on Informed Sources, a weekly news discussion program broadcast on public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12.
Laborde's
most recent books are Krewe: The Early Carnival from Comus to Zulu and Marched the Day God. a history of the Rex organization. He also wrote the text for a pictorial book, Mardi Gras- A Celebration and has published two compilations of his Streetcar local color columns, The Buzzard Wore A Tutu and I Never Danced With An Eggplant. BUY THE BOOK
