Tag: New Orleans

Mardi Gras House Floats

New Orleans Mardi Gras parades have been cancelled because of COVID, so people are decorating their houses as floats instead:

‘Float houses’ are popping up all over New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2021: Now with 250 photos!

How the Mardi Gras float house phenomenon began and how it’s spreading beyond New Orleans

Featured image source: Reuters/Kathleen Flynn

Frans Ferdinand Blom: Danish Dixie Bohemian Archaeologist

Frans Blom 1922. Source: Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Public Domain

“My first encounter with a cave filled with human skulls and bones occurred in 1928 at Huxjal.” Frans Ferdinand Blom knew how to start an article. His bio is now up at Jazz Age Adventurers.