Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans this year is February 13, but there are many activities and parades which began in January.
The origins of Mardi Gras can be traced to medieval Europe. In 1699, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville, arrived in the New World some 60 mile south of what is now New
Joe Wesley knows turning points. He’s been through enough of them.
Left school in the seventh grade and became a classic American self-made man. Crane operator at 15. Married and a father at 16. A Marine at 17. And eventually, he built one of the country’s largest and most successful heavy-lift crane companies, AmQuip, based in Bensalem.
How does a city kid born in a rowhouse on Richmond Street in Bridesburg go from collecting glass bottles for income to hosting the President of the United States at his home in Upper Makefield, as he did last October?
He chuckled.
“It’s a long story,” he said, and glanced toward his wife, Marion, to whom he’s been married for nearly 70 years.