How does that Moon Pie get baked, packaged and placed in the hands of revelers? The Press-Register's Bronwyn Coffeen created this illustration explaining the birth of the creation of the Mobile ...

The new train service will connect Mobile to New Orleans with four stops in coastal Mississippi, returning rail service to ...

In Mobile, Ala., Moon Pies Add To Mardi Gras Flavor New Orleans' Mardi Gras is the best known of the celebrations in America that signal the start of Lent, but it is certainly not the only one.

In hand, my first Mobile Mardi Gras Moon Pie. Mardi Gras — as everyone in Alabama routinely reminds you — originated not in New Orleans but in this charming city on Mobile Bay, in 1703 to be ...

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 ...

Mardi Gras in Mobile is two weeks of parades, parties, beer, beads, Moon Pies and mayhem. But without the, um, excesses of the Big Easy.

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. Credit: AP ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — If there’s one thing the birthplace of Mardi gras does not play about, it’s MoonPies. Mardi Gras revelers are over the moon for the sweet treat that is a common th… ...

The cellophane-wrapped sugar bomb hurtled toward us in the Alabama night. Jostling for position, I boxed out the 7-year-old boy to my right, lunged in front of the grandmother to ...

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 ...

Reporting from Mobile, Ala. — Think Mardi Gras and your thoughts are apt to turn to New Orleans, where the celebration of the last day before Lent gives new meaning to the word “raucous ...