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A Mardi Gras mask in the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center in Eunice. The Eunice center is the site in the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve to be be open on Mardi Gras. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Mardi Gras: The party in Eunice begins Friday

Thu, 02/04/2016 - 5:37am Harlan Kirgan

The Mardi Gras is arriving in Eunice and the party begins in earnest Friday when the music starts at 6 p.m.
The barriers are on the side of 2nd Street, but it will be about 2 p.m. Friday when 2nd Street is closed from U.S. 190 to Park Avenue.

Cisha Ledet began making and selling king cakes in her home kitchen 20 years ago. Her business has grown from selling 150 cakes her first year to 10,900 in 2015. (Photo by Howell Dennnis/Crowley Post-Signal)

Queen of King Cakes

Mon, 02/01/2016 - 2:30pm Harlan Kirgan

Most people in South Louisiana associate Mardi Gras with street parties, parades and gathering with friends.
When Cisha Ledet thinks of Mardi Gras ... well, she may not have the time to think.

Participants in the Tee-Mamou/Iota Courir de Mardi Gras visit an area residence during the annual run. A chapter in the book “It Happens In Louisiana: Peculiar Tales, Traditions and Recipes from the Bayou” is dedicated to this South Louisiana tradition. (Crowley Post-Signal File Photo)

Breaux Bridge author addresses Tee-Mamou/Iota group in book

Sun, 01/31/2016 - 5:00pm Harlan Kirgan

The Mardi Gras spirit is beginning to make its presence felt in Southwest Louisiana and the Tee-Mamou Courir de Mardi Gras had their first organizational meeting of the year recently at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Evangeline Highway just south of Garber Farms.

Linda Thomas, left, a data processor at the Eunice Community Health Center, receptionist Monica Olivier, and medical assistant Alisha Ardoin. The Eunice Community Health Center’s sixth annual Taster’s Choice event will be Wednesday at the LSUE Acadiana Center. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)

Taster’s Choice tickets available for fundraiser for Community Health Center

Sun, 01/31/2016 - 6:19am Harlan Kirgan

Tickets are still available for The Eunice Community Health Center’s sixth annual Taster’s Choice Wednesday at LSUE.

Jules Bouteleux, 30, and Juliette Duchange, 29, of Brussels, Belgium, look at the Mardi Gras exhibit at the Experience Louisiana Festival in the Continuing Education Building on the LSUE campus. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Belgian couple discover Cajun Mardi Gras

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 7:21pm Harlan Kirgan

A Belgian couple learned about a traditional Mardi Gras at the Experience Louisiana Festival and plan to return in February for the Eunice celebration.

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