Location: Slidell, LA
Date: February 9, 2020
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: The Slidell Women's Civic Club
Krewe Website: www.slidellwomenscivicclub.org
The”
Krewe of Slidellians” will roll the streets
of Slidell on February 9, 2020 at 1 p.m. The Slidell
Women’s Civic Club is a group of vibrant
women who have one trait in common: the desire
to serve the Slidell community. They are proud
enthusiasts of the family atmosphere, business
opportunities, and cultural events of Slidell,
LA. As a non- profit organization, they are here
to promote civic and community responsibilities.
Founded in 1947, the Slidell Women's Civic Club was formed to foster service to a then small community with the promise of growing to a larger town in eastern St. Tammany Parish. They are dedicated to fostering the civic, welfare, cultural and social interest of the community of Slidell. The organization is involved in numerous activities and community projects.
About the Book Never before has the history of the Mardi Gras celebration been looked at this way. Errol Laborde focuses on the first 60 years of the organized celebration in New Orleans, a period that bridges the premiere parade of the Mistick Krewe of Comus and the founding of the Zulu organization. Along the way he discovers fascinating characters; including a poetic journalist who survived a bloody attack, an archduke looking for fun and a would-be king finding religion. Laborde also links an African War with Custer¹s Last Stand and disproves some of the conventional wisdom about Carnival¹s early history. This is the most important contemporary book on early Carnival history. And it fun to read too.
about Errol Laborde Errol Laborde is the Editor-in-Chief of Renaissance Publishing Company. In that capacity he serves as Editor/Associate Publisher of New Orleans Magazine and Editor/ Publisher of Louisiana Life Magazine.He also oversees several other company publications, including St. Charles Avenue and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles.
Laborde is producer and a regular panelist on Informed Sources, a weekly news discussion program broadcast on public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12.
Laborde's
most recent books are Krewe: The Early Carnival from Comus to Zulu and Marched the Day God. a history of the Rex organization. He also wrote the text for a pictorial book, Mardi Gras- A Celebration and has published two compilations of his Streetcar local color columns, The Buzzard Wore A Tutu and I Never Danced With An Eggplant. BUY THE BOOK
