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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.
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.
The winner of over 20 New Orleans Press Club awards, Laborde
is a three-time winner of the Alex Waller Award, the highest
award given in print journalism by the Press Club. In
2004 he won the Press Club¹s Ashton Phelps Award
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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.
Laborde holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the
University of New Orleans.
He has served on the boards and been
chairman of The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary
Festival and Le Petit Theatre.
Laborde is a Fellow of Loyola University’s Institute
of Politics and the
New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute. He was recognized
as a Role Model by New Orleans’ Young Leadership
Council and received the Advertising Club of New Orleans’
Hornblower Award for his civic work. |
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