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English: The heart and soul of Mardi Gras in Mobile.

Joseph Stillwell Cain

In 1866, Joe Cain dressed as a mythical Chickasaw Chief, and might have seemed comic - but certain perceptive ones realized he represented the epitome of victory - for the Chickasaws were never defeated in all their history.

So Joe Cain, with his masquerade, lifted this region from despair and revived the ancient French observance of Boeuf Gras - now known in Mobile as Mardi Gras - thus inaugurating the dispute as to who had Mardi Gras first - Mobile or New Orleans?

Mobile had it first, but New Orleans was the first to call its carnival Mardi Gras...

The Boeuf Gras society was already 150 years old in 1861, when it disbanded because of the war...

According to tradition - Joe Cain was the first folly to chase the devil round a stump...

Joe Cain founded the Tea Drinkers in 1846...

Note: The supposed "dispute" is moot, since actually Mardi Gras was hundreds of years old before it was brought to the New World in the Colonial era.
Olympus E-P1 17mm ZD f/2.8 ISO-200
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Source Own work - Here Lies Old Joe Cain 1832-1904
Author Avhell - Pat David
Camera location30° 41′ 08.98″ N, 88° 03′ 02.44″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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