Celebrated each year the Sunday before Fat Tuesday, Joe Cain Day a day to honor the legend credited with reviving Mardi Gras traditions in the Port City.
Celebrated each year the Sunday before Fat Tuesday, it is a day to honor the legend credited with reviving Mardi Gras traditions in the Port City. It began with the annual early-morning spectacle of the “Merry Widows” wailing and moaning over Cain’s grave on Church Street, followed by the so-called People’s Parade, where anyone can participate, and almost anything goes.
Wayne Dean has been portraying Joe Cain’s alter ego, Chief Slacabamorinico, for 39 years now. It conjures the legend of the famous Mobilian who is said to have dressed as an Indian chief to lift the spirits of a defeated city after the Civil War. Kaliyah Finklea, a 10-year-old girl who was with the group, showed off a costume featuring elaborate wings.“I wish,” she said.
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