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Event Information:
Pensacola Beach is the scene of the
annual Mardi Gras Parade. Sunny
weather is in the forecast for
Sunday’s Pensacola Beach Krewe of
Wrecks Mardi Gras parade, and
organizers are planning to see big
crowds on the island. Over 40 floats
are registered for the parade, which
will begin at 2 p.m. and travel from
Avenida 10, along Via de Luna to the
Casino Beach parking lot, ending
near the Gulfside Pavilion.
Pensacola, Florida hosts a Mardi
Gras Celebration. The Pensacola
celebrations also use Moon Pies in
combination with beads, coins,
candies & Krewe-related trades. The
Pensacola festivities and the Krewes
that sponsor them often are more
light-hearted and family-oriented
than some in other venues. The name
of a number of the Krewes are puns
of the names of historic Krewes in
New Orleans and Mobile.
The
annual Pensacola celebration, is
among the oldest in the United
States, dating back to 1874.
Festivities typically took place on
the eponymous Tuesday itself and the
preceding week. The event became
unorganized, having "fallen entirely
into the hands of individual
merry-makers and frolickers who
disported themselves as their own
wild merriment dictated," but was
reorganized by the Clerks Union in
1900. They formed the Pensacola
Carnival Association with a
12-person committee led by chairman
J. I. Johnson. Priscus remained the
title of the festival's ceremonial
king, and Alexander Clement Blount
II was named the first King Priscus
of the new group.
The
celebration is currently organized
by Pensacola Mardi Gras, Inc., and
Pensacola Mardi Gras krewes parades
and balls occur in the weekend prior
to Fat Tuesday.
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