French Quarter Easter 2024: Best Bonnets

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Apr 1

April 2024

Each year, more French Quarter parade-goers costume and this year’s Easter Day marathon of parades was no exception. We captured some of our favorite Easter regalia and announce our first FQJ Best Bonnet! You’ll find our album of Easter parade pics here.

- photos by Ellis Anderson and Melanie Cole

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This feature is made possible by Calli Weirick, Financial Services Professional, New York Life

FQJ’s choice for Most Original Easter Bonnet, the Megoosa headdress, photo by Ellis Anderson

Trixie Minx celebrated her second anniversary at 834 Chartres Street, photo by Ellis Anderson

Technically not a bonnet, but Sophie, the therapy bunny, made the costume and delighted lots of folks! photo by Ellis Anderson

Sophie shoulder-sat (with a little help), to the delight of all, photo by Ellis Anderson

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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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