Masked Observer: Reveling in the light, banishing the gloom
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
King Braxton Hicks spreads his mystic splendor at the Krewe de Palmetto block party in downtown Mobile on Feb. 13, 2021.
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In the South, mamas always have the last word.
It’s no wonder that for Mardi Gras to happen, even with the volume turned way, way down, it would require the festive framework of maternal domain. Grappling with this invisible pestilence, the Mother of the Mystics and the Mother of Invention must have held a tête-à-tête, for the morsels that emerged from their Carnival kitchen filled the season’s final weekend with optimism and happiness.