The Mardi Gras of New Orleans
Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras – Fat Monday and Fat Tuesday – are the culmination of what was originally a Roman Catholic celebration to mark the forty-seven days before Easter.
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Deep South USA
Rosa Parks: humble civil rights activist
Rosa Parks, became an historic figure in the US civil rights movement . She was a black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on the 1st December 1955.
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The Food and Soul of the Mississippi Delta
Vicksburg marks the beginning of the Mississippi Delta, a flat alluvial plain between the Yazoo and the Mississippi Rivers.
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Where did Elvis Presley come from?
Apart from blues, there are other sounds that came out of the Mississippi which together formed rock’n’roll, pop and just about every sound that leaps from radios today.
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Going Creole: The Food of New Orleans
The first cooking school here dates back to 1722, only four years after the original colonial settlement was named in honour of Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans. The first restaurant opened in 1840.
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