|
Amid Smiles and Sighs, a Leaner Fat Tuesday New York Times Mar 1, 2006 NEW
ORLEANS, Feb. 28 — People living here never think about needing a calendar to plan their
Mardi Gras, which would be like planning to attend February ... drawing a huge crowd by this year's ... "On
the day before Mardi Gras Day, Monday, comes Rex, King of Carnival, accompanied by his nobles and attendants in waiting, to
his much-beloved Capital.'... Rex usually, although not necessarily, makes his journey to the city by way of the river
on his Royal Yacht,' escorted by the Royal Flotilla'--which royal yacht and royal flotilla vary, according to his
whims, from private yachts to visiting war vessels of the United States and foreign nations, with accompanying tugs and merchant
steamers." [New Orleans Progressive Union. New Orleans: What to See and How to See It (1909), pp. 27-28.]
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/river/rex.htm ---  | | Louisiana Turns From Cotton to Cane. | |
The Washington Post |
"In some parts of my State," remarked Col. J.S. Aubrey,
a wealthy cotton grower of Avoyelles parish, La., "there is a strong movement among the planters to make a change of
crops. Heretofore in my locality the principal product has been cotton, but henceforth it will be sugar cane.
|
