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The carnival season on the coast gets into full swing each year when CASA of Hancock County hosts its biggest benefit of the year - the Mardi Gras Gala.  More than 500 people attend this event, this year to toast King Mike Favre and Queen Sue Layel. 

- photos by Lionel Haynes, Jr. 

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The Krewe of Real People - a BSL tradition - morphed into the Krewe of Diamonds twelve years ago.  In 2018, it was  Krewe of Real People - Next Generation!  Known as the only predominantly African-American parade on the Gulf Coast on Mardi Gras, it gets everyone out and celebrating the big day. 
- photos by Lionel Haynes, Jr.

The 39th annual Krew of Knights Mardi Gras Parade is made up of student, teachers and supporters of Holy Trinity Catholic School in historic Bay St. Louis. Each year, it meets up with the royal court of Nereids.  Proclamations of good cheer were issued by Bay St. Louis Mayor Mike Favre and the proceedings ended with a lemonade toast.  

- photographs by Ellis Anderson 

All parades are great, but we’re pretty sure the all-woman Nereids Krewe can safely call its event the Superbowl of Hancock County parades. Nereids is 51 years old this season and and looks lovelier every year!  

- photography by Brenda Comer

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CASA's annual Mardi Gras Gala included dinner, entertainment, the crowning of CASA’s King and Queen and an amazing silent auction.  More than $40,000 was raised for this charity dedicated to local children in foster care. 

Learn more about this amazing program and find out how you can volunteer and make an enormous difference in a child's life. 

- photographs by Ellis Anderson 

The swashbuckling Mystic Krewe of the Seahorse, which parades through Bay St. Louis on Lundi Gras each Mardi Gras, tapped its 2018 royalty on Thursday evening, November 9th, at Cuz's Old Town Oyster Bar and Grill.  Reigning over this pirate themed crew is Keith Rubio and Martha Whitney Butler.   See our slide show gallery below. 
Photos by Brenda Comer