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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors to Mobile Alabama's Carnival Museum can view many of the unique costumes worn in its annual Mardi Gras Parade, a highlight of the Carnival season in this town that claims to have the ...

As an Alabama native, I think Mobile is the best place for Mardi Gras in the US. The celebrations are less crowded than New Orleans' and just as fun.

Mobile, Alabama, kicks off 1st Mardi Gras since 2020. With clear skies and nighttime temperatures in the 50s, a big crowd was in attendance to go after plastic beads, trinkets and Moon Pies.

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 ...