Mission Statement

In endeavoring to chronicle the panorama of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, we heed the words of the late New Orleans journalist and novelist Robert Tallant.

 “I think if there is any world left in which human beings still laugh and still, even on rare occasions, have fun, there will be Mardi Gras, and that it will live through whatever catastrophes occur…,” Tallant, in his 1947 book Mardi Gras…As It Was, opined. He went on to observe that, “Men cease to laugh only when they are very ill or when they have become beasts…. That is why Mardi Gras is not a trivial matter but a very important one. In a way it is a symbol of the art of being human, and wherever people are still human, wherever they still enjoy living, it will exist in some form.”

Our Krewe

Graham Button: Editor

Mark Sottek: Webmaster

Tony Van de Walle: Illustrator

Pat Jolly: Photographer