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 ...

Address: 2465 Winbush St., Mobile, AL 36610 Every year Mardi Gras – which means "Fat Tuesday" in French – falls the day before Ash Wednesday and caps off the weekslong period of wintertime ...

Mardi Gras actually began in Mobile, Alabama – a port city with close proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, located about 140 miles east of the Big Easy. “By virtue of being established prior to ...