The First Mermaid Parade

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Written By Ellis Anderson

September 2nd, Krewe Du Fool – which puts on the annual April Fools parade – branched out this year with a new Mermaid-themed parade along the Mississippi. The destination? Of course, the recently reopened Audubon Aquarium. The $15 participation fee benefits the Audubon Nature Institute Education Department. If the delight of parade-goers and marching sea creatures is any indication, this one is fated to spawn an even larger parade next year.

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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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