A Glimpse at Courir de Mardi Gras
EUNICE, LOUISIANA Photograph by William Widmer The Cajun tradition of Courir de Mardi Gras, in which revelers run from home to home to beg for ingredients for a communal gumbo, traces its roots back to medieval Europe (hence the homemade patchwork costumes and coned capuchons meant to mock nobility). …