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Parade during COVID; Mobile officials preach ‘personal responsibility’ ahead of Mardi Gras event Updated 10:23 AM; Facebook Share Makayla Pitts is a recent high school graduate who isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19 but is young enough where she probably would not suffer serious health consequences if she contracted the virus. The 18-year-old who is graduating from B.C. Rain High School isn’t taking any chances, however. She’s not going to Friday’s Mardi Gras-style parade in downtown Mobile because she remains unvaccinated and because she anticipates most people there will not be wearing face coverings. “COVID is still out there,” said Pitts, who says she needs to get vaccinated this summer before attending college in Atlanta this fall. “I am not vaccinated so I know to still wear my mask. But people are not wearing masks when they are supposed to.”
Masked Observer’s Mellow MoonPies celebrate a unique season Updated Feb 19, 2021; Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local scene. Friends, roamers, revelers, I beg your attention. There is plenty of room around the fractured Column of Life, for Folly and Death have whirled, and it’s now time for you to save the world. Just as you saved Mardi Gras. The Lenten season spares so few of us, both justifying the Carnival indulgence that precedes it, and offering the space needed to reflect and recover. The last 11 months necessitate healthy doses of both, and while we’re not out of the woods yet, the Observer has a feeling that we’re heading in the right direction.
‘It’s a sad, sad day’: Joe Cain Day traditions continue in Mobile during pandemic Updated Feb 15, 2021; Facebook Share Mayim Bloom walked over with a bouquet of dead roses in her hand and dropped them on a grave marker festooned with Mardi Gras beads and coins Sunday morning. She might not be one of Cain’s “Merry Widows,” but the 4-year-old did her part to keep the spirit of Joe Cain alive during the traditional day that honors the late Confederate solider. Cain, more than 150 years ago, is credited with reviving Mardi Gras in Mobile following the Civil War and he has been celebrated on the Sunday before Fat Tuesday since the late 1960s.
When Mardi Gras was last canceled: World War II and the return of frivolity in 1946 Updated Feb 11, 2021; Posted Feb 11, 2021 A picture of the 1946 Kings Parade hangs on the wall at the Mobile Carnival Museum in downtown, Mobile, Ala. The parades during the 1946 Mardi Gras were the first to take place along the Alabama Gulf Coast since 1941. For four years, from 1942-1945, Mardi Gras events like parades were canceled due to World War II. The next time there was widespread cancellations during Mardi Gras in Mobile was in 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The original photo of this image holds a place is in the holdings of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at the University of South Alabama.
Amid COVID-19 uncertainty, hidden clockwork of Mardi Gras still turns Updated Dec 18, 2020; Posted Dec 18, 2020 A photo from the 2011 Mobile Carnival Association coronation, in which King Felix III Edward Dickson Williams III crowns Queen Lynn Wentworth Morrissette, shows some of the fanfare ahead for the MCA's 2021 king and queen. But due to COVID-19, the dates at which 2021 events will take place remain unknown.Chip English/AL.com Facebook Share For a few hours Friday afternoon in the Mobile Saenger Theatre, as a king and queen posed for official portraits in elaborate royal attire featuring sweeping 20-foot-long trains, it was possible to feel like Mobile’s Mardi Gras business was proceeding as usual.