Joe Cain's "Merry Widows" stand around his grave in historic Church Street Graveyard as part of the annual Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile. Cain (1832-1904) is credited with reviving the city's festivities after the Civil War
Joe Cain's Merry Widows
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Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
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