Although Mardi Gras in New Orleans gets all the attention, the event in Mobile, Alabama, is actually older.Mardi Gras and Carnival are traditional — and traditionally excessive — celebrations that take place before Ash Wednesday and the serious and austere religious season of Lent.Mardi Gras was first observed in the New World in 1703 at a settlement near Mobile, with Carnival celebrations starting in 1711 at the city’s present site. (The first Mardi Gras in New [...]
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