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Carnival

Carnival


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mardi Gras in Mobile, Mystic Society, Joe Cain, Striker's Independent Society, Mobile Carnival Museum, Merry Widows of Joe Cain, Order of Myths. Excerpt: Joe Cain as "Slacabamorinico" Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr. ( Joe Cain ) (October 10, 1832 April 17, 1904) is largely credited with the birth or rebirth of Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama . In 1867, following the Civil War and while Mobile was still under Union occupation, Joe Cain paraded through the streets of Mobile, dressed in improvised costume depicting a fictional Chickasaw chief named Slacabamorinico . The choice was a backhanded insult to the Union forces in that the Chickasaw had never been defeated in war. Joe was joined by six other Confederate veterans, parading in a decorated coal wagon, playing drums and horns, and the group became the "L. C. Minstrel Band," now commonly referred to as the "Lost Cause Minstrels" of Mobile. Life and work Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr. was born on October 10, 1832, along Dauphin Street in Mobile, Alabama. He was a son of Joseph Cain, Sr. (1799-1856) Joe Cain's gravestone in the Church Street Cemetary, Mobile, AL Joe Cain is buried in the Church Street Graveyard in downtown Mobile, Alabama. His gravestone carries the inscription: Here lies old Joe Cain The heart and soul of Mardi Gras in Mobile Joseph Stillwell Cain Slacabamorinico - Old Slac 1832 - 1904 In 1866 (sic.), Joe Cain dressed as a mythical Chickasaw Chief, and might have seemed comic - but certain perceptive ones realized he represented the epitome of victory - for the Chickasaws were never defeated in all their history. So Joe Cain, with his masquerade, lifted this region from despair and revived the ancient French observance of Boeuf Gras - now known in Mobile as Mardi Gras - thus inaugurating the dispute as to wh...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781155823461
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115582346X
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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