MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - It’s the last weekend of the Mardi Gras season on the Alabama coast as weeks of parades and parties come to an end before the beginning of Lent.
Nine parades are planned for Saturday and Sunday around Mobile and Baldwin County. And Sunday is Joe Cain Day in Mobile, where thousands of revelers will celebrate the man credited with creating Mobile’s Mardi Gras festivities.
There are more parades on Monday and Tuesday, when all the parties come to an end as the religious observance of Lent begins the next day with Ash Wednesday.
Storms have hurt crowds this year, but the weekend forecast is for sunny, cool weather.
New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities are larger and better known than ones elsewhere on the Gulf Coast, but Mobile touts its Mardi Gras celebration as being the nation’s oldest. Other Alabama cities including Auburn, Dothan, Huntsville and Montgomery have gotten into the Mardi Gras spirit with their own parades or other events.
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