A Visit to Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu (Lake Charles)
Staying a few days in Lake Charles, LA, we learned that the city has the 2nd largest Mardi Gras celebration in the United States. So we paid a visit to the Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu and talked to Docent and Curator David Faulk.
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For more on the history of Mardi Gras see our story
Value Place Lake Charles - Lake Charles (Louisiana) - United States
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Value Place Lake Charles hotel city: Lake Charles (Louisiana) - Country: United States
Address: 3202 North Power Centre Parkway; zip code: LA 70615
Value Place Lake Charles is located 3.8 km away from Killen Stadium. WiFi access is available and each room comes equipped with a flat-screen cable TV and a seating area. A microwave and a refrigerator are featured in the kitchenette of every room.
-- Le Value Place Lake Charles est situé à 3,8 km du Killen Stadium. Vous disposerez d'une connexion Wi-Fi et chaque chambre est équipée d'une télévision par câble à écran plat ainsi que d'un coin salon.
-- El Value Place Lake Charles se encuentra a 3,8 km del estadio de Killen. Tiene conexión WiFi disponible y todas las habitaciones cuentan con TV por cable y zona de estar.
-- Das Value Place Lake Charles ist nur 3,8 km vom Killen-Stadion entfernt. WLAN-Zugang ist ebenfalls verfügbar. Jedes Zimmer ist mit einem Flachbild-Kabel-TV und einem Sitzbereich ausgestattet.
-- Value Place Lake Charles酒店距离Killen Stadium体育场3.8公里，提供无线网络连接。每间客房都配有平面有线电视和休息区。 每间客房的小厨房都配有微波炉和冰箱。私人浴室配有浴缸或淋浴。 酒店内设有自动售货机，提供免费停车场。 酒店距离Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu博物馆4.8公里，距离查尔斯湖历史区（Lake Charles Historic District）不到5公里。
-- Отель Value Place Lake Charles находится в 3,8 км от стадиона Киллен. К услугам гостей бесплатный Wi-Fi и номера с гостиным уголком и телевизором с плоским экраном и кабельными каналами.
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Top 13. Best Tourist Attractions in Lake Charles - Louisiana
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The most beautiful places and sight in Lake Charles.
Top 13. Best Tourist Attractions in Lake Charles - Louisiana: Golden Nugget Casino, L'Auberge du Lac Casino, Prien Lake Park, Millennium Park, Sam Houston Jones State Park, Bord Du Lac Park, Lake Charles Visitor Center, Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu, USS Orleck, Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lake Charles, Charpentier Historic District, Imperial Calcasieu Museum, 1911 Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center
Golden Nugget Lake Charles, Lake Charles (Louisiana), USA, HD
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Featuring tennis courts and an outdoor pool, Golden Nugget Lake Charles is a casino resort in Lake Charles. Free Wi-Fi access is available throughout the property. Lake Charles Civic Center is 4.5 miles away.
Each guest room provides a flat-screen TV and air conditioning. There is a hairdryer and bathrobes in the private bathroom. Some rooms overlook the lake or pool.
There are several on-site restaurants and bars with a wide variety of food and drinks.
At Golden Nugget Lake Charles, guests can enjoy the private beach area. This casino resort also features a full service spa and an 18-hole golf course.
Imperial Calcasieu Museum is within 4 miles of this property. Sam Houston Jones State Park is a 20-minute drive away.
Best Attractions & Things to do in Lake Charles, Louisiana LA
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Golden Nugget Casino
Millennium Park
Prien Lake Park
Sam Houston Jones State Park
L'Auberge Casino Resort
USS Orleck
Lake Charles Visitor Center
Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu
Crying Eagle Brewing Company
Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lake Charles
Comfort Suites Lake Charles, Lake Charles (Louisiana), USA, HD
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The Comfort Suites Lake Charles hotel is three miles from Lake Charles Civic Center multipurpose venue. This hotel offers features and amenities, including: Free wireless high-speed Internet access, Free newspaper, Free local calls, Free coffee.
All of guest suites are equipped with microwaves, refrigerators, flat-screen televisions, coffee makers, curved shower rods, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards, sofa sleepers and cable television. Keep your electronic devices charged with the recharge device including AC and USB outlets provided in all guest rooms. Ask about our rooms that have hot tubs.
Free Morning Breakfast features eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including a choice of hot waffle flavors. If you're leaving early, a Grab & Go bag is available for the two hours prior to breakfast.
Guests of this hotel can also enjoy the seasonal outdoor pool and exercise room during their visit. The on-site business center provides travelers with conveniences like a public computer with Internet access, and copy and fax services. For added guest convenience, coin-operated laundry facilities on the premises and valet cleaning services are offered. Ample free parking is available and can accommodate most cars, trucks or buses.
This hotel is minutes from local points of interest like McNeese State University, the Children's Museum and Imperial Calcasieu Museum. The L'Auberge du Lac casino, several entertainment venues and shopping centers like Prien Lake Mall are nearby. A number of restaurants, cocktail lounges and coffee shops can be found in the vicinity.
Lake Charles Historic Tour App
The Charpentier Historic District has been brought to life with the new Lake Charles Historic Tour App. The free app can be downloaded in multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, German and closed-captioning for the hearing challenged. It will give visitors a guided experience through the 40-block area on the National Register of Historic Places.
Whether you drive, take a carriage ride or walk, the new Lake Charles Historic Tour app will give you turn-by-turn directions through the Charpentier (French for carpenter) Historic District in downtown Lake Charles that pays homage to the carpenter-architects who freely designed as they built, creating a unique Lake Charles style. Users can choose a 30 Minute Tour, One Hour tour or Calcasieu Ghost Tour.
There are also videos on the Great Fire of 1910, Ghost Stories and Legends, Lake Charles Architecture and the History of Lake Charles. The app promotes social network sharing and even allows the user to create a post card from the district.
The CVB worked with BarZ Adventures and Adley Cormier with the Calcasieu Historical Preservation Society on the app content. Many photos used were from McNeese State University, the Louisiana Digital Library, the Imperial Calcasieu Museum and the CVB.
Download the app in your app store by searching for “Lake Charles Historic Tour.”
Red Roof Inn & Suites Lake Charles in Lake Charles LA
Website: . . . . . . . .. .. ... . . . . Red Roof Inn & Suites Lake Charles 269 Highway 397 Lake Charles LA 70615 Within 10 miles of McNeese State University, this motel features a continental breakfast and wireless internet access. Warmly-colored guest rooms feature a flat-screen TV with cable channels. Rooms at Red Roof Inn and Suites Lake Charles also include a microwave and small fridge. An outdoor pool and lounge area is on site at Lake Charles Red Roof Inn. The property also provides other conveniences such as a coin-operated laundry facility and a business center. The motel’s fitness facility features a treadmill and elliptical machine. Imperial Calcasieu Museum is within a 15-minute drive of the motel. Christus St. Patrick Hospital is 8 miles away.
Golden Nugget Lake Charles - Lake Charles Hotels, Louisiana
Golden Nugget Lake Charles 4 Stars Hotel in Lake Charles, Louisiana Within US Travel Directory Offering an 18-hole golf course, full-service spa and outdoor pool, Golden Nugget Lake Charles is a casino resort located in Lake Charles.
Free WiFi access is available throughout.
Lake Charles Civic Centre is 7.
5 km away.
Each guest room provides a flat-screen TV and air conditioning.
There is a hairdryer and bathrobes in the en suite bathroom.
Some rooms overlook the lake or pool.
There are several on-site restaurants and bars offering a wide variety of food and drink.
Guests can also enjoy shopping at various boutiques, or relax at the private beach area.
Imperial Calcasieu Museum can be found within 6.
2 km of this property.
Sam Houston Jones State Park is a 20-minute drive.
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Louisiana Military Museum
Louisiana Military Museum is located in Ruston and displays 150 years of military history.
Get the First Look at What Rex Royalty Will Wear
WDSU Anchor Randi Rousseau and Metorologist Jay Galle show you the Rex royal room where we find out what the Captain, the King, and the two pages of Rex will wear in the Mardi Gras parade.
Cajun Mardi Gras
We learn about Iota's Cajun Mardi Gras in Mark Klein's Down Home Louisiana on Good Day Cenla.
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state.
As of the 2010 census, the population was 71,993. Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area, having a population of 202,040. It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-Jennings Combined Statistical Area, with a population of 225,235. The 2010 population of the five-parish area of Southwest Louisiana was 292,619.
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Ep. 49 - The Starfish Ft. Kayla Rigney - Find the Good News with Oran Parker
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When I sit and reflect on all the people I've encountered in my life, I feel grateful. It's not because every person I've met has been pleasant—I'm just thankful to have encountered the variety. On one end of the spectrum, I've met many people filled with pride and hubris, touching others with the subtleness of a shotgun blast. Sometimes I've even been that person. Other times I've met extremely grounded people that choose to affect the world kindly, one day at a time, person-to-person. It was my good fortune to have that friendly and gentle type come and visit me on Find the Good News in the person of Kayla Rigney. Kayla Rigney is the executive director of the Calcasieu Community Clinic, a non-profit free health care clinic located on the McNeese State University campus in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Kayla and the staff at the Calcasieu Community Clinic provide medical care to low-income and working uninsured people in the Imperial Calcasieu region. As it turns out, this is the perfect home for a good-natured person like Kayla, and the more I spoke with her, the more I could see the fit. Kayla has a knack for being realistic yet optimistic, grounded and hopeful. She seems to understand whether life brings you troubles or rewards, it is your attitude that makes all the difference in your quality of life. While the clinic she works for affects the many, Kayla tries to keep her focus on the individuals, the particulars of the people she encounters. She knows their stories, she knows where they come from, and because her heart is open to them, she can genuinely care about them in a personal way. I'd like to adopt more of Kayla's direction in my life, touching people in simple ways, one-by-one, face-to-face, not from a distance. I think we could all benefit from that. The world could benefit from that. The world is full of problems—It's easy to get gridlocked. If we take a page from Kayla Rigney, if we do one good thing for one person, just a little, when and where we can, then we won't have to find the good news. Like Kayla, we'll be making good news every day.
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Artistically Speaking - Julie Kane
The fourth video in the Artistically Speaking series features the Louisiana Poet Laureate, Julie Kane. On May 12, Kane read a selection of her work at the Imperial Calcasieu Museum. She also read a poem inspired by the Louisiana Bicentennial and the history of Southwest Louisiana. For A.S., Kane shares her love of poetry and her creative process in the making of the bicentennial poem.
The complete reading can be heard at and at for the video of the bicentennial poem reading at ICM.
New Mardi Gras Restrictions in New Orleans - What's New LSU
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Mardi Gras Exhibit At Museum of Art
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) The spirit of Mardi Gras doesn't have to end after Fat Tuesday. You'll find an exhibit highlighting all of the revelry at the Mobile Museum of Art.
The organization announced the showcase as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. The exhibit gives folks a behind the scenes look at what it takes to pull off the special occasion.
The exhibit can be viewed through May.