Location: Uptown New Orleans
Date: January 6, 2021
Location: St. Charles Ave. Streetcar Line
We all know that
to #revelresponsibly some new ideas about celebrating
Mardi Gras 2021 have emerged- even though our annual
street car ride is cancelled, we will be having
a unique and interactive scavenger hunt for our
coveted hand-painted record throws!
The first clues on where to find records along the
St. Charles Ave street car line will be released
on Instagram on Jan. 6 at 5pm, followed by more
clues for more records! So be sure to follow
us on Instagram and set a reminder to keep an
eye out on Twelfth Night for clues. The following
morning, an e-blast will go out to all our subscribers
with every clue so you can see if any were not found
the night before.
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
