Krewe of Cork Parade 2024

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Written By Ellis Anderson
February 2024

Demonstrating exceptional stamina, the Krewe of Cork celebrates the world of wine, starting with a three hour wine luncheon, then spreading all that good cheer through the streets of the French Quarter.

- photos by Ellis Anderson

 
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King Patrick Van Hoorebeek a few weeks before the parade, getting in the groove at his wine bar on Bienville, Patrick’s Bar Vin.

The krewe’s first female lieutenant, Maurye Aycock, tries on her costume the day before. Read our story about Maurye here.

Before the march, Captain Walt Navoy leads a pre-parade meeting with his lieutenants in the Court of Two Sisters courtyard.

Friday, Feb. 2 - 11am: The krewe gathers on Royal Street outside the Court of Two Sisters restaurant for their pre-parade wine luncheon and costume reveal.

Former Krewe of Corks Queen, Margarita Bergan

A seemingly endless supply of wines ready to be served at the luncheon

3pm: After a long wine luncheon at Court of Two Sisters, the krewe took to the streets, marching through the Quarter with ample libations, of course.

Writer Jeremiah Beck and photographer Sam Battaglia watch from their Royal Street balcony

King Patrick, handing out royal necklaces on Bourbon Street

Queen Mary Bartholomew

Ser Maurye on the parade route

 

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Ellis Anderson

Ellis Anderson first came to the French Quarter in 1978 as a young musician and writer.  Eventually, she also became a silversmith and represented local artists as owner of Quarter Moon Gallery, with locations in the Quarter and Bay St. Louis, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  

Her book about the Bay's Katrina experience, Under Surge, Under Siege, was published by University Press of Mississippi and won several awards, including the Eudora Welty Book Prize in 2010 and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011.  Under Surge, Under Siege was also short-listed as nonfiction finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Book Prize, Stanford University Libraries.

 In 2011, Anderson founded her first digital publication, the Shoofly Magazine and served as publisher from 2011 - 2022.  She established French Quarter Journal in 2019, where she currently serves as publisher and managing editor.

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