Welcome to Mardi Gras Fun (www.MardiGrasFun.com)

This is a family orientated website

Mardi Gras Fun is designed and created by a native New Orleanian to share with you.
a) Mardi Gras (since 1940s)
b) New Orleans
c) Louisiana and
d) Other items..

Our single most important mission is to share stories, pictures, movies and our local history through the eyes of local New Orleanians with you.
New Orleans, like most major urban areas, has much to offer. But trust me, it is also a fun place to live. Les Bon Temps Roule (Let the good times roll)
Way back in 1842 my great great grandfather, Victor, came to Louisiana from France. He was called to manage a plantation along the river in the Napoleonville area of Lousiana. He brought with him several sons. My great grandfather, Jean Pierre, was a 16 year old at the time. He almost outlived all of his three wives. His last wife, a German, was my great grandmother who lived into her late 80s and died in 1932. She sang to my older brother, Peter, who died 4/25 at age 76. My father was the first of six to be born in Algiers at home, where most children were born in those days.
We even had a relative, Gen. Paul, who was placed in charge of the European Brigade in New Orleans by Mayor Monroe during the Civil War and just before the Federal seizure of New Orleans. At that time he owned a wine and cheese shop in the French Quarter. He was a Frenchman who came to make his fortune in the new world and found all this civil unrest. Locals and Confederates considered these Europeans 'Yanks in disguise.' (Note the link on the very left bottom of this page to my brother's fictional book evolving about him.)
My mother's side (maternal great grandparents) were mostly of German decent. They came over in the mid 19th century also. They were cotton brokers and bankers. My mother's maternal grandfather remarried in 1900 after the death of her grandmother. Women didn't live long in those years.
I hope you enjoy this web site and learn from it.. It is not unlike a book. It's just easier to bounce around inside, also to easily locate other resources and also for the materials to be updated.

Any questions and/or suggestions contact info@mardigrasfun.com

 

To the right is St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square