Mark A. "Tony" Gulotta
Mayor
Plaquemine, La.
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The Plaquemine Mardis Gras Balls
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Krewe of Cypress, 1995 |
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| Theme |
"Gathering of the Celts" |
| In Photo |
Queen Jeanne Burns,
King J.P. Gaudet |
| In Tableau |
Queen Brigantiz, Goddess of Fire;
King Belenus, God of Fire |
| King and Queen |
Queen Jeanne Burns,
King J.P. Gaudet |
| Ball Captains |
Janine Pendley, "High Druid" |
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Krewe of Cypress, 1995 |
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| Theme |
"Gathering of the Celts" |
| In Photo |
Queen Jeanne Burns;
Attendants: Kay Wilbert, Jennifer Dupont, Myrle Tallman, Gabrielle Dupont, Jill Wilbert, Kaylan Boudreaux |
| In Tableau |
Queen Brigantiz, Goddess of Fire;
Attendants, the Flame Bearers |
| King and Queen |
Queen Jeanne Burns,
King J.P. Gaudet |
| Ball Captains |
Janine Pendley, "High Druid" |
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The other thing is is that our themes for our balls down here and our actual decorating of our
Civic center is also tops in the state. Nobody can touch us on it. We actually sell our sets after
Mardi Gras season to other Krewes around the state. They come in and they buy our sets and rent
our costumes. We cannot use another costume. Once we use it, that's it. It's retired after that. But,
we've developed a huge following of talent that's set builders. They basically build sets. We
design them on a computer now, we have different Krewes that build the main sets, might build
some of the secondary sets.
We've got different Krewes to handle the Queen's entrances, the
King's entrances, and when we are looking for talent for our Krewe we always take talent first,
and men with daughters second.
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That's also part of our tradition because that is mainly put on back
to the old southern tradition to show your daughter, and so we look for that, but talent we
always take first. Our Krewe is limited to 130 members simply by the size of the building. If we
had a bigger
building we could definitely have a bigger Krewe. But 130 members with their guests usually
converts to about 700 to 800 people just on the floor and that's the maximum amount the gym
will hold. We usually get anywhere from 40 to 50 inquiries a year, to want to join. You have to be nominated and
normally we only have one or two openings. It's a fair system that we do take in there.
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