The First New Orleans Mardi Gras: Bears and Transvestites February 24, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
The relevant Wikipedia page dates the first recorded Mardi Gras to 1835. However, there was certainly a small Mardi Gras held a long century before. Indeed, possibly our earliest Mardi Gras description from the city was written out in 1730. In that year a Company of the Indies official Marc-Antoine Caillot, who had been in […]
