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by Patricia L. Cook Next week, on February 21, many people around the globe will celebrate Mardi Gras. This issue of Tidbits will “laissez les bons temps rouler” (let the good times roll) as we explore this celebration.

• The city most associated with Mardi Gras in America is New Orleans. Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday,” the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which begins the Christian season of Lent. It is also the last day of the Carnival season. “Carnival” season is a period of feasting and fun that always begins on January 6, which in Christianity is the Feast of Epiphany, following the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” While mostly celebrated in areas where Roman Catholicism is predominant, Epiphany is celebrated in other churches as well.

• In New Orleans, parades happen for several weeks before Mardi Gras, but the largest and probably most famous happen on the last weekend before and through Mardi Gras day.

There are about a dozen held in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day, with even more in the suburbs.

• Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and Lent are all important times for Catholics. Ash Wednesday is the first of 40 days (excluding Sundays) prior to Easter that make up Lent. Lent is a time of preparation for Easter, when the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated. turn the page for more!

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• Another term used for Mardi Gras is “Shrove Tuesday.” Shrove is the past tense of “to shrive” and means “to go to or make confession.”

Mardi Gras is known as the day to party. In New Orleans, when the clock strikes midnight, Lent starts, and the party ends. Mounted police lead a parade of street cleaners, clearing and cleaning the city.

• Historians believe that French explorers Iberville and Bienville held the first American Mardi Gras on March 3, 1699. After a very difficult journey down the Mississippi River, they landed about 60 miles south of New Orleans.

They had a small celebration and named the area “Pointe due Mardi Gras.” Bienville also established “Fort Louis de la Louisiane,” which later became Mobile, Alabama. Many say that the first official Mardi Gras was held in Mobile in 1702. (During this time, before the Louisiana Purchase, Mobile was part of Louisiana.)

• For many years, New Orleans and other French settlements of the South marked the Mardi Gras holiday with street parties, masked balls and lavish meals. When the Spanish took control of New Orleans, they abolished the rowdy celebrations. The bans were in force until Louisiana became a state in 1812.

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(continued): • By the late 1830s, there were processions of masked people with carriages and riding horseback. Newspapers started announcing the Mardi Gras events in advance. More krewes formed, and today there are more than 50 parades in the Greater New Orleans area.

• On February 24, 1857, the Mistick Krewe of Comus, a secret society of businessmen, organized a torch-lit procession with rolling floats and marching bands. This began the parade traditions that persist today. The parade was followed by a ball for the krewe and their guests.

• Today the elaborate, invitation-only balls for the many krewes begin when Carnival Season starts on January 6. Each krewe elects a king and queen and their court. They wear masks and are never officially revealed; except for Rex, who as the King of Carnival, is revealed the day before the parade.

• The Krewe of Rex, organized in 1872 by a group of businessmen, came up with the idea to have a King of Carnival. They held the first parade during the daytime. This krewe introduced the Mardi Gras song (“If Ever I Cease to Love”), the flag and the colors of purple, green and gold.

Meaning was assigned to the colors in 1892: Purple for justice, green for faith and gold for power.

• While most parades require crowds to simply watch and applaud when floats pass, Mardi Gras crowds work hard to catch “throws.” This tradition started in 1871. The most popular throws are beads, plastic cups and doubloons.

Doubloons are aluminum medallions, like large coins, that depict the parade theme on one side and the krewe’s emblem on the other. The first medallions appeared in 1884, with the Krewe of Rex, and the start of doubloons like those given out today started in 1960 also with Rex. • The actual name for the Krewe of Rex is the School of Design. Rex, the King of Carnival, arrives by a boat that crosses the Mississippi River on the night before Mardi Gras. When Rex arrives, the Mayor of New Orleans presents him with the key to the city.

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(continued): • One of the most popular and “different” parades held during Mardi Gras in New Orleans is put on by the Krewe of Zulu. This krewe started in the early 1900s, with their first official appearance as Zulus in 1909. The group started from a group of black men who belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. These societies were the first forms of insurance in the black community where, for annual dues, members received financial help when sick and financial aid when needing to bury deceased members.

• Zulus made a distinct impression on Mardi Gras crowds in 1909 by being totally different. They wore raggedy pants and had a quartet singing in front and behind their king. The king wore a “lard can” crown and carried a “banana stalk” scepter.

• Another difference with the Zulu Parade is their unusual throws. Possibly as early as 1910, the krewe made their mark by throwing coconuts, known as “Golden Nuggets.” In the early years the coconuts were in their natural “hairy” state, but a few years later, the krewe started handing out beautiful painted and decorated coconuts.

• In 1988, the Louisiana Legislature passed a law dubbed the “Coconut Bill” that excluded the coconut from liability for injuries arising from the Zulus handing out coconuts in their parades.

• Louisiana is the only state where Mardi Gras is a legal holiday.

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Can you imagine the looks on the faces of the first people who saw the gigantic hole in the ground that is now named the Grand Canyon? This Tidbits will go deep into the canyon for some interesting information.

• Originally established as a Forest Preserve in 1893, then Grand Canyon Game Preserve in 1906 and a National Monument in 1908, the massive canyon was destined for greatness.

Three years after the National Park Service was created, Grand Canyon National Park was established in 1919. The park is famous worldwide, hosting around 5 million visitors per year. That is even more than America’s first national park, Yellowstone.

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One of the largest symbols of the American West lies south of the Grand Canyon in the Sonoran Desert. The saguaro, pronounced suh-wah-ro, is the world’s largest cactus.

• The Sonoran Desert covers 120,000 square miles in southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, most of Baja California and the western half of Sonora, Mexico. Saguaros grow exclusively in the Sonoran Desert, but not all areas of the Sonoran have the plants. They generally do not grow in areas that are above 4,000 feet in elevation. They will not survive freezing temperatures.

• Saguaros are found in southern Arizona and western Sonora, Mexico. A few stray saguaros may be found in southeast California. Most of these giants are near Tucson, Arizona. There are approximately 1.6 million saguaro cacti plants growing within Saguaro National Park, divided into two districts east and west of Tucson.

• Saguaro cacti can grow up to 60 feet tall and weigh as much as an elephant! These desert giants can live to be about 200 years old. The plants do not sprout their arms, or branches, until they are about 70 years old. While some saguaros never grow branches, some can be found with as many as 25 arms!

• Saguaros have white flowers that bloom in late spring and red fruit in the summer. The cactus blossoms are the official state flower of Arizona.

• These fascinating giants provide food and shelter for many animals. Some that may be found high in the branches of saguaros are bats, birds and owls. Harris’ hawks and cactus wrens love the saguaro.

• Gila woodpeckers use their strong beaks to hollow out nest holes in the stems of the saguaro cactus. The holes dry out to form a scab that becomes a safe, dry, cool place for eggs to hatch and baby birds to grow.

• When gila woodpeckers abandon their nests, tiny elf owls move in. The world’s smallest owls, at about 5 inches long, make the world’s largest cactus their home. They hide in the daytime and search for insects, spiders and small lizards at night.

• While the flying critters on a saguaro may not seem too scary, the crawling critters that live in or near the base are. The desert scorpion and desert tarantula are two that hide under rocks and in grasses nearby.

• Two rats, wood rats and kangaroo rats, build nests in the ground around saguaros. Wood rats eat cactus flesh, which is poisonous to most animals. They have strong stomachs that allow them to break down the poisons. Kangaroo rats have strong back legs that allow them to hop across the hot desert soil quickly.

• Giant saguaros are home to several kinds of snakes, including diamondback rattlesnakes.

These snakes can be eight feet long and have poisonous, deadly bites.

• One of the few lizards of the world that has a poisonous bite, the gila monster, also lives near saguaro cacti. This monster hunts small mammals, birds and their eggs, and other lizards.

Gila monsters have bright orange and black patterns on their scaly skin and can grow up to two feet long.

• There are more critters not covered in this Tidbits that live in, on or near saguaros. When you see a large saguaro cactus and are tempted to stand close for photographic memories, think again. Maybe it is better to take those photos from a distance!

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