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Mardi Gras in Mobile

Author : L. Craig Roberts
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852517
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Mardi Gras in Mobile written by L. Craig Roberts and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded. In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint Louis, believed to be the first in the New World. These curious organizations brought old-world traditions as they held celebrations like parades and balls with themes like Scandinavian mythology and the dream of Pythagoras. Today, more than 800,000 people annually take in the sights, sounds and attractions of the celebration. Historian and preservationist L. Craig Roberts, through extensive research and interviews, explores the captivating and charismatic history of Mardi Gras in the Port City.

Baseball in Mobile

Author : Joe Cuhaj
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738515823
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Mobile written by Joe Cuhaj and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city wrapped by the Gulf of Mexico's beaches, Mobile has a history as rich as the azalea-saturated soil on which it rests. Recipient of the All-American City distinction, Mobile is home to the original Mardi Gras celebration, the Junior Miss Scholarship Program, the Battleship U.S.S. Alabama, and Hammerin' Hank Aaron. The city's passion for baseball has endured through its tumultuous past, marked by yellow fever, World War II prominence, and the Civil Rights Movement. Spanning from the late 1800s to the present day, Baseball in Mobile recounts the introduction of baseball to the Port City, chronicles the vast talent of Mobile natives who have influenced the sport, and introduces the players and teams of modern Mobile, many of whom are sure to become tomorrow's legends. Historic photographs of the changing baseball landscape are captured in Baseball in Mobile, showcasing the fact that while the fields, uniforms, and teams have changed, the game remains ingrained in Mobile, as constant as the bay that surrounds it.

Mardi Gras in Alabama

Author : Karyn Tunks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941879221
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Mardi Gras in Alabama written by Karyn Tunks and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carnival, American Style

Author : Sam Kinser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226437293
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Carnival, American Style written by Sam Kinser and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Milking the Moon

Author : Eugene Walter
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611877709
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Milking the Moon written by Eugene Walter and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD This sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, the best-known man you’ve never heard of, is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century—enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price—and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition that has critics cheering. In his 76 years, Eugene Walter ate of “the ripened heart of life,” to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. Walter savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the the l920s and ‘30s; stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York; was a ubiquitous presence in Paris’s expatriate café society in the 1950s (where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception); and later, in 1960s Rome, participated in the golden age of Italian cinema. He was somehow everywhere, bringing with him a unique and contagious spirit, putting his inimitable stamp on the cultural life of the twentieth century. “Katherine Clark…has edited Eugene Walter’s oral history into a book as amazing as the man himself.” JONATHAN YARDLEY, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD “Milking the Moon has perfect pitch and flawlessly captures Eugene’s pixilated wonderland of a life…. I love this book—and I couldn’t put it down.” PAT CONROY “Surprising and serendipitous.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Anecdotes so frothy they ought to be served with a paper parasol over crushed ice.” PEOPLE “A rare literary treat…the temptation is to wolf it down all at once, but it’s much more satisfying to take your sweet time. The most unique oral history of the mid-twentieth century.” TIMES-PICAYUNE (NEW ORLEANS) “An exceptionally fun read.” ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

Hidden History of Mobile

Author : Joe Cuhaj
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467143545
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Mobile written by Joe Cuhaj and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an unlikely place for a city, scourged by disease-ridden mosquitos and pummeled by hurricanes. But for more than three hundred years, Mobile has thrived on the unlikely and endured the unimaginable. Mobilians love their gumbo but are likely unaware that it was first served up here by women sent from France to foster population growth. Times were once so dire for free blacks that a shocking number petitioned the courts to become slaves. The city witnessed the first operational submarine, the first Mardi Gras celebration and the last major battle of the Civil War. Author Joe Cuhaj navigates the backwaters of Mobile's fascinating history.

Chasin' the Devil Round a Stump

Author : Julian Lee Rayford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Chasin' the Devil Round a Stump written by Julian Lee Rayford and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

12 Days of Mardi Gras

Author : Melissa Thibault
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455626414
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book 12 Days of Mardi Gras written by Melissa Thibault and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repetition, alliteration, and visual humor abound in this Mardi Gras themed riff on the iconic holiday song, perfect for emerging readers and early counters. As each day of the Mardi Gras season passes, a gift is given. Each of the many, many, many gifts is familiar to those who embrace the season's traditions. Coming in twos, twelves, fives and fours, the gifts include majestic masks, floats a rolling, golden shoes, and cherished cups. Colorful illustrations provide lots of additional hijinks and engagement in this soon-to-be-classic holiday tale!

Historic Photos of Mobile

Author :
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618586564
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of Mobile written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile's long history includes joyous Mardi Gras celebrations and tragic natural disasters. Civil War and segregation, shipping and manufacturing, dirt streets and booming wharves are part of its fascinating story. Cargo shipped to and from its busy docks gradually shifted from cotton to timber to bananas to manufactured goods. In World War II, its population grew exponentially as the city became an important shipbuilder for America's arsenal. Historic Photos of Mobile transports readers to a time of hoop skirts and horse-drawn carriages, then shows them how the city changed during the first half of the twentieth century. Timeless, rarely seen, black-and-white images capture historic colleges, family-owned shops, the longest American flag ever displayed, hurricane damage, social change, tall ships, and scenes of daily life in generations long gone.

Cowbellion

Author : Ann Pond
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329461797
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Cowbellion written by Ann Pond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the lives of Michael Krafft, and his family, Cowbellion tells the story of how Mardi Gras was born in antebellum Mobile, New Orleans and the ports of the northeast. Masked balls, slaves, Creoles, and Yellow Fever were all new to the Krafft family and thousands of others who came to Deep South in the 1820's and 1830's, to be at the center of the booming international cotton trade. Out of their experiences, a new tradition of festivity was born."--Publisher's description.

Queer Carnival

Author : Amy L. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479801968
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Queer Carnival written by Amy L. Stone and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As LGBTQ people gain more legal rights, it's important to think of more complex ways of being included in society. From the Mardi Gras celebrations in the Deep South to the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia to the Portland Rose Festival, communities across the United States gather together to celebrate, participate in parades, encourage tourism, cultivate local traditions, and craft a sense of place. I am interested in large public festivals like Fiesta San Antonio that are intended to include everyone in the city, because these festivals are supposed to be a time when the city comes together as one to appreciate the diverse contributions of people within the city. During festivals, whose culture gets included and valued, which events are allowed, and how different communities are represented, become socially significant and fraught questions. Festival participation can be a rich site for LGBTQ participants to be valued for their cultural differences and find a sense of belonging in the city"--

Mardi Gras

Author : Joanna Ponto
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766074722
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Mardi Gras written by Joanna Ponto and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will learn all about the culture, history, and celebrations of Mardi Gras. From costumes to carnivals and music, students will want to revel in the festivities. Students can make gumbo according to the recipe in the book, as well as create a Mardi Gras mask to celebrate!

All on a Mardi Gras Day

Author : Reid MITCHELL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041178
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book All on a Mardi Gras Day written by Reid MITCHELL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Reid Mitchell takes the reader to Mardi Gras - a yearly ritual that sweeps the multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast.

Cajun Women and Mardi Gras

Author : Carolyn E. Ware
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056450
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Women and Mardi Gras written by Carolyn E. Ware and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women’s contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras “run.” Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside, led by unmasked capitaines--have customarily excluded women. Male organizers explain that this rule protects not only the tradition’s integrity but also women themselves from the event’s rowdy, often drunken, play. Throughout the past twentieth century, and especially in the past fifty years, women in some prairie communities have insisted on taking more active and public roles in the festivities. Carolyn E. Ware traces the history of women’s participation as it has expanded from supportive roles as cooks and costume makers to increasingly public performances as Mardi Gras clowns and (in at least one community) capitaines. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork interviews and observation in Mardi Gras communities, Ware focuses on the festive actions in Tee Mamou and Basile to reveal how women are reshaping the celebration as creative artists and innovative performers.

Our Southern Souls

Author : Lynn Oldshue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737849308
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Our Southern Souls written by Lynn Oldshue and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Southern Souls is a collection of 177 interviews of strangers that I approached on streets all across the southern United States. Each story feels like an honest conversation. Readers of Our Southern Souls have told me they've discovered a part of themselves in a story or found comfort and encouragement in reading about shared experiences or emotions. In the six years since starting this project, I have learned that the faces and places might change, but two things remain constant: everyone has a story to tell, and all of us need to know our life matters.

Bon Temps

Author : Jeff Haller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999273999
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Bon Temps written by Jeff Haller and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans has long been associated with Mardi Gras, but in Alabama, we don't care to play second fiddle. Mobilians proudly claim to have established the country's first Mardi Gras traditions dating back to the 1830s. Mardi Gras here is a month-long, glitter-and-gold-leaf, gumbo-fixin', celebrity-impersonating, waiting-in-the-wings, spotlit, alcohol-swamped, gimme-sumthin-Mister, drum-rolling, siren-wailing, shoulder-to-shoulder blowout. In Bon Temps: Alabama's Mardi Gras, photographers Jeff and Meggan Haller bring Alabama's premier cultural tradition to the world. Mobile's Mardi Gras is a celebration of excess preceding the fasting and penitence of Lent. It culminates on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of the Lenten season. Today's Mardi Gras is an economic bonanza accommodating hundreds of thousands of revelers over three weeks of parades, balls, and partying. With dozens of mystic societies, traditions run deep. It's so old that you may think you've seen it all, but in Jeff and Meggan Haller's collection of sometimes shocking, sometimes silly, always vivid images, and essays by Eleanor Inge Baker, we're confident you'll discover something new. Casebound in linen with foil-embossed cover and marbled endsheets, Bon Temps: Alabama's Mardi Gras honors Mobile's tradition of over-the-top frivolity. As the slogan goes, Mobile's a city born to celebrate.

Murder in Mobile

Author : Cheryl Peyton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Mobile written by Cheryl Peyton and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Trotter reunites with four college friends to celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama ten years after their graduation. Their stay at the haunted, Civil-War-era Granada Inn has provided some unnerving happenings, but when there's a murder during the Mystic Goddesses ball, they need to put aside any fears to identify the killer who may be after one of them.