this week magazine twVolume 40 Issue 7 • 2|14|19m - 2|20|19 G lou ras cester Mardi G FEATURED PHOTO Volume 40 Issue 7 • 2|14|19 - 2|20|19 3 COVER STORY The 27th annual Gloucester Mardi Gras will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Gloucester Community Club. Josh Potter, owner of Summer Melons Farm in Beaufort, is sur- rounded recently by many of the birds he owns or has raised at his farm in this photograph by News-Times reporter Cheryl Burke. To see your photograph in this space, email it and a short caption to 4 MOVIE REVIEW [email protected], share it with us on our This Week Magazine social media feeds or mail hard copies with a postage-paid “The LEGO Movie” is a hard act to follow. The big envelope if you would like the photograph returned to you. test was always going to be the sequel and whether or not it recreates the magic of the first. ON THE COVER: Mary Robinson Brown of Swansboro dons her 5 RECIPES favorite mask for the 2018 Gloucester Mardi Gras. (Dylan Ray photo) Crafting quick, easy, nutritious meals is one of the most common goals for home chefs, yet it may CONTACT INFORMATION sometimes be difficult to keep the menu fresh. twm is published Thursdays by Carteret Publishing Co. Inc. 4206 Bridges St., Morehead City, N.C. 28557. THEATER 6 EDITOR: “Miss Evers’ Boys,” a play based on historical Megan Soult events, will be performed on the New Bern Civic [email protected] Theatre stage for two weeks. PHOTOGRAPHY: Dylan Ray [email protected] 7 PERFORMANCE GRAPHICS: Megan Lewis It is time for some of the county’s biggest “celeb- [email protected] rities” to dust off their dancing shoes. Dancing with ADVERTISING: our Stars is returning for another year. Kim Moseley [email protected] 8 CALENDARS To submit event information, email Megan Soult or write to: Find out what’s happening this week and twm, P.O. Box 1679, Morehead City, NC 28557 beyond on the Crystal Coast and in surrounding areas. 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(Dylan Ray photo) Community to celebrate Mardi Gras with event The 27th annual Gloucester sausage gumbo, red beans and According to the Gloucester door begging for live chickens), to help defray other costs of Mardi Gras, named North rice and deep-fried turkey will Mardi Gras’ event page, the fes- given that the ingredients to the festival, and chip in to the Carolina’s best February desti- be served in the early after- tival is modeled after the lesser- our gumbo and the turkeys are Gloucester Community Center’s nation by Our State magazine, noon, announced by the “Fool’s known courir de Mardi Gras, donated by friends and neigh- Woodrow and Mary Dudley will take place from 11 a.m. to Procession.” which is celebrates Fat Tuesday bors, and folks can all jump in Price Scholarship Fund that goes 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Attendees are welcome to in rural parts of Louisiana, rather and help chop veggies and stir to a college-bound High School Gloucester Community Club, bring side dishes. than cities such as New Orleans roux Friday night, help serve senior from the eastern part of 476 Pigott Road, Gloucester. Feathered mask-making will be and Lafayette. food on Saturday. the county,” she continued. Sponsored by the Unknown available for kids and grownups, “We model our Mardi Gras “So it’s by the people, for the For more information, con- Tongues Cajun Zydeco band, alike. Costumes are welcome. after the community spirit of the people, and not about charging tact 252-729-8021 or see un- Gloucester Mardi Gras features In the community spirit of RURAL Mardi Gras of Southwest admission and making money. knowntongues.com and face- Cajun/Zydeco bands, as well as southwest Louisiana’s rural Lousiana, without the horses, We put out donation boxes book.com/unknowntongues/. old time and roots rock. Mardi Gras, this event is open whips, and stealing of chickens,” The music kicks off at 11 and free to the public, made the site reads. a.m. with Marsha Harris, fol- possible by cash or food dona- “‘Courir’ means ‘run’ in lowed by Cajammers, Lost Girls, tions. French – so a central Cajun Possum Monorail, Unknown A portion of the proceeds goes Mardi Gras tradition is the Tongues and Yose (Aren Blake to the Gloucester Community Mardi Gras ‘run’ or procession and Khrystine). Club’s Woodrow and Mary (often on horseback) through New Used, Antiques, Consignment, Live music and dancing goes Dudley Price Scholarship for the country begging for chick- Handcrafted Items & Local Artists • Estate Sales Services Available on all day, including a children’s graduating high school seniors. ens and other gumbo ingre- king and queen march and Donations can be made on dients,” said Barbara Garrity- Zydeco dance around 3 p.m. to site or online unknowntongues. Blake, a member of Unknown COME CHECK OUT OUR NEW YEAR SALES! the Unknown Tongues. com/gmg.htm. Tongues and event coordinator. 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