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Let The Good Times Roll

 


Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!

In other words, “Let the good times roll!” Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and Mardi Gras is about letting go of the not-so-good times and having yourself a whole lot of fun!

This year, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, Mardi Gras in New Orleans returns after another year of the pandemic. Mayor LaToya Cantrell has told New Orleans Mardi Gras will return to the city in 2022. However, there are changes, mostly in altered routes of the famous parade through the city. Interested in going? Check with event planners.

Thanks to French-Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, it is believed Mardi Gras began March 3, 1699 when he camped just downriver from what is now New Orleans. Back in France, it was Fat Tuesday. Pierre named the camping spot Point du Mardi Gras and held a party there! I suppose he likely toasted to the event exclaiming “Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!” I don’t know this for a fact but I’m going to go with it! A few years later, a group of French soldiers and local settlers celebrated the festivities in hand-crafted, decorative masks in the new town of Mobile, that’s now in the state of Alabama. Hmm? I didn’t know that!

Mardi Gras kicked off not so long after the city now known as: (the Big Easy) was founded in 1718. There is a lot of interesting culture associated with New Orleans Mardi Gras, too much for me to detail here now! You might do a little research yourself. Of some interest, look up the history of the Krewe of Rex and the Krewe of Proteus and Les Mysterieuses, and the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club. Like I said, there is some very interesting history to be discovered about Mardi Gras.

Okay enough said! Are you getting ready to have some real fun? No? Aw, com’n let’s Mardi Gras, and you heard that right; let the good times roll…Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!”

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