Mobile’s Mardi Gras is ‘community-owned,’ Carnival museum curator says. Published: ; Feb. 12, 2024, 4:06 p.m.

Cart Blackwell is curator at the Mobile Carnival Museum, the oldest such museum in the United States. Most people associate Mardi Gras with New Orleans, but Mobile is home to the country’s ...

Opening Saturday, Nov. 8, "The Art and Design of Mardi Gras" is a first-ever collaborative effort from the History Museum of Mobile, the Mobile Carnival Museum and the Mobile Museum of Art.

Before New Orleans, there was Mobile, Alabama — the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America. Mobile, founded by Roman Catholics from France in 1702, was home to the first mystic society, or "krewe ...

Mobile, Ala. • Quick question: Where is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S.?

Finding the roots of when Mardi Gras was first celebrated in America is as complicated as the act of celebrating it today is simple.. Some historians say it first appeared in Mobile, Alabama ...

If you think you know Mardi Gras, you don't . . . well, not unless you know that the first celebration in the United States happened in . . . Mobile, Alabama, not New Orleans. It has been an ...

And Mardi Gras celebrations in Alabama extend well beyond Mobile. Fairhope, the postcard-pretty town across Mobile Bay, has its own parades, as do the beach towns farther south — Gulf Shores and ...

Okay, so Mobile Mardi Gras is no secret to the citizens of the state and maybe a few other nearby southerners, but did you know that there's a Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile, Alabama? Better yet ...