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  • Raising Cains (The Man Who Revived Mardi Gras in America)

    02/06/2005 5:10:26 PM PST · by blam · 12 replies · 1,364+ views
    Mobile Register ^ | 2-6-2005 | Roy Hoffman
    Raising CainsLost in the mist of time are his gold-crowned walking cane and the silver platter given to him by Adm. Raphael Semmes. But Joe Cain, the man who revived Mardi Gras in 1866, left something more tangible behind. In Bayou La Batre and elsewhere, generations of Cains live on. Sunday, February 06, 2005 By ROY HOFFMAN Staff Reporter When Norwood Cain, 75, was a boy in Bayou La Batre, his grandfather, Oliver , and paraded through Mobile streets, reviving Carnival in 1866; the next year he rode in a decorated wagon with a group of ex-Confederates, The Lost Cause...