Flotte’s Notes on
Mobile Attractions
An Unofficial Encyclopaedia
of Mobile & Baldwin Counties
Promoting local history, culture, outdoors, businesses,
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Mobile Attractions
Seasonal Festivals Museums Gardens Arts Sports Food Mardi Gras
Religion Media Videos Culture Refuges
& Parks
"Down
in
the land of clowns,
ghosts and musicians, and
Mobile Bay
Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Hotels
Alabama Gulf Coast
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce
Current Events – Mobile & Baldwin
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Grossology: The Science of the
Human Body at the Exploreum Oct 5th, 2007-Dec
31st, 2007
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M. C. Escher: Rhythm of Illusion at the
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Mobile
Christmas Parade
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Lighting
of the Trees in
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Bellingrath’s Magic
Christmas in Lights at
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A Bruce Larsen Christmas at the
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2007/2008 GMAC Bowl Jan 6th, 2008
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7th Annual BankTrust First Light Marathon Jan 13th, 2008
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Rodin: A Magnificent
Obsession at the
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2008 Senior Bowl Jan 26th, 2008
Mobile & Baldwin Events Calendars
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Press-Register Entertainment
Calendar
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City of Mobile Events Calendar
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Mobile Bay Convention and
Visitors Bureau Events Calendars
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Mobile Arts Council Calendar
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Alabama
Humanities Foundation
Seasonal
Festivals and Fairs
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Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick Parade is held on March 17 each year
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Market
on the Square
is held in
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Brown
Bag in Bienville
is a series of mid-day concerts in
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American
Cancer Society’s Annual Chili Cook-Off Competition
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Festival of Flowers is held each spring
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Arts
Alive!
on Dauphin and Conti Streets is a biannual street and performing arts festival
that began in 2003 – Spring and Fall
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Kids
Days on Bienville Square is held every Thursday during the summer
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The Gulf
Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival began in 1998. It is held in July in
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Dauphin Street International Beer Festival in August
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BayFest music festival is held every October since 1995
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The Greater Gulf State Fair is held every October. Includes arts and crafts
exhibits, concerts, livestock expos, petting zoos, PORCA Rodeo and the Great
Gulf State Gun & Knife Show.
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Alabama Pecan Festival is held in Tillman’s Corner in November
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The Mobile International Festival is held in November
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The Rileigh & Raylee Angel Ride is held in November in Fairhope
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Mobile
Christmas Parade
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Lighting
of the Trees
in
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Bellingrath’s
Magic Christmas in Lights at
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Government Street Presbyterian Church’s Music
and Fine Arts Program
Mobile &
Baldwin Museums
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Museum of Mobile/Exploreum houses a complex of museums in the Old City Hall
o The Gulf Coast Exploreum
Science Center is a science museum and I-Max Theater.
o The Museum of Mobile exhibits
the history of the City of
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Spirit of Lasalle
o The Visitor’s Center is a reconstructed portion of
o
o
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Marx House
Complex:
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Mobile Black
History Museum
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National
African-American Archives and Museum:
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The
Alabama Black Heritage Tour includes an 1875
shanty at
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Mobile Zoo &
HQH Western World
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The
o The first room of the tour, known as the
"carriage room" for decades now, contains a few exhibits: float
replicas, a platform with an undulating floor where one looks out upon a
facsimile crowd for a riders’ eye view, an antique flambeaux, a model of the
now-jeopardized Mardi Gras park on Royal Street and a mannequin posing as a
street vendor. Past that point, the remaining part of the museum takes a much
more regal turn. The trains and lavish costumes of the Mardi Gras
royalty take up the majority of space left and visitors are well briefed in the
opening film about the royalty and its origins among
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o Stephens Croom was
instrumental in the acquisition and establishment of
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The Mobile Maritime Museum is projected to open in 2009.
o The 90,000-square-foot interactive museum, with
hands-on exhibits such as a simulated glass-bottom boat, and others with names
such as "Charting the Gulf" and "You Be the Skipper," is
expected to cost $30 million.
o In a public-private partnership, the city of
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Several antebellum homes are open to the
public, including the Oakleigh
Mansion, the Bragg-Mitchell
Mansion, and the Condé-Charlotte House
o The Minnie Mitchell Archives are housed in the Oakleigh Historic Complex
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The earliest
examples of local architecture that remain intact are two houses estimated to
have been built in 1826: the Vincent House on
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The Battle of Mobile Bay Civil War
Trail was dedicated in 2007
· Mobile Area Museums Association
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The Bellingrath Gardens and Home
are in Theodore. The gardens' 60 acres were purchased
in 1917 as a fishing camp by Walter Bellingrath,
President of Mobile's Coca Cola Bottling Plant. Mrs. Bellingrath
began developing the gardens with architect George B. Rogers in
1927, and the home was completed in 1935.
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