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Article: New Orleans Turns Out for Mardi Gras

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February 28, 2006
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02-28-2006
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Greg Tobin gets a kiss from Margaret Dolan as members of Pete Fountain's Half Fast Walking Club march down St. Charles Ave as a kickoff to the Mardi Gras celebration in Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Six months after being laid low by the most destructive storm in U.S. history, the people of New Orleans are still finding reason to celebrate Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, the last day before Lent.

Monk Boudreaux, 64, is part of the Mardi Gras Indian tradition that historians say dates back more than a century: Dressed in elaborately feathered and beaded costumes, he and other black New Orleanians ...

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