About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Cultural institutions in Mobile, Alabama, Festivals in Mobile, Alabama, Films shot in Mobile, Alabama, Jews and Judaism in Mobile, Alabama, Museums in Mobile, Alabama, Executive Decision, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mardi Gras in Mobile, The Final Destination, Magnolia Cemetery, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Distinguished Young Women, Mystic society, Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim, Fort Conde, Soultaker, Mobile, Alabama in popular culture, Stone Cold, Saenger Theatre, Old City Hall, Battleship Memorial Park, Azalea Trail Maids, Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery, Raw Justice, Gulf Coast Exploreum, Oakleigh Historic Complex, Night Trap, Dead Birds, Bragg-Mitchell Mansion, Conde-Charlotte House, Mobile Museum of Art, National African American Archives and Museum, Mobile Opera, The Order of Myths, Ahavas Chesed Cemetery, Mobile Carnival Museum, Love Liza, Raw Nerve, Bayfest, Back Roads, Mi Amigo, The Final Sanction, Carlen House, Crichton Leprechaun, Excalibur, Mobile Symphony Orchestra. Excerpt: Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, is the oldest continual annual Carnival celebration in America, having begun in 1703, Since Mobile was the first capital of French Louisiana (1702), the festival began as a French Catholic tradition, celebrated up until midnight on Mardi Gras day ("Fat Tuesday" or Shrove Tuesday) and the subsequent start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. However, Mardi Gras in Mobile now has evolved into a mainstream multi-week celebration across the spectrum of cultures in Mobile, so that the final Monday, Tuesday, and sometimes even Wednesday have become school holidays, regardless of religious affiliation. Although Mobile has traditions of exclusive societies, with formal masked balls and elegant costumes, the celebration has evolved over the past three centuries to become typified by public parades where m...
