New Orleans Mardi Gras

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This paper explains that the author's visit to the New Orleans Mardi Gras surpassed her most outrageous expectations, an experience that she will never forget and will recount to her children and grandchildren. The author points out that all of the music, pouring from the bands playing in City Park, from the portable radios and stereos up and down the street, from the open doors of local bars and restaurants, and from the young boys dotted throughout the crowds playing steel drums, seemed to meld into one sound, one beat, a distinctive carnival drumbeat. The paper relates that the author and her cousins ended their day by stopping at Caf' du Monde for coffee and beignets where they rested their feet and admired their collection of "throws", which draped their necks and bulged from their plastic bags.

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"Saturday afternoon we took a taxi down Orleans Avenue to City Park, the beginning of the Endymion parade route. Both sides of the street were literally packed with thousands of people, at least eight to ten deep, while mounted police patrolled up and down. The meridian was lined with sofas, stuffed chairs, rocking chairs, lawn furniture, barbecue grills, large ice chests, six-pack coolers and the like. Many people had spent the night on the street to ensure a good spot to watch the parade. One look around and I began to understand why this was known as the people's parade."

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