My sister Mary performed at Mardi Gras this year, in the first post-Katrina festival. Not her first Mardi Gras, not her first performance… but her first appearance in the New York Times, on page B7 of the print edition of the paper for February 21, 2006.
I saw a thumbnail online, similar to what I show here, but could not find the original image at first. My mother found it in the online slideshow. You may view the full image if the thumbnail below isn’t enough. (It isn’t.)
Photo credit goes to Chang W. Lee. Caption in the paper was
Spinning Toward Mardi Gras
New Orleans has not let the Hurricane Katrina disaster keep it from celebrating the Carnival season, with Scott Heron’s art and performance space, the Sidearm Gallery, doig its part on Sunday in the form of a “Gong Show”-style event; Merrygoround, above, acted as host.
It’s Marygoround, not Merrygoround… the online slide show got that right, and there is a second picture (she’s on the right).
Congratulations to Mary.