WINGS Community Group
This is a place firstly and foremost for Support for all Women.. Whether it be every day life issues, family or emotional support, we care and we are here to listen and support, to share the good things in life as well, to smile with each other and to give gentle encouragement and pleasant thoughts along the way.. Please feel free to ask for support and post in the...
Residents of New Orleans get into the spirit of
Mardi Gras by decorating their homes and balconies.
The tradition of Mardi Gras was brought into the Americas at the tail end of the 17th
century by French explorers Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne
de Bienville.
The Le Moyne brothers had been dispatched to explore and survey the French-
claimed territory of Louisiane, which at that time included much of the territory that
is today occupied by the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.