Mardi Gras trees are exactly what you think they are: A Christmas tree decked out with Mardi Gras decorations. The exact history of the origin of Mardi Gras trees is a little fuzzy. Jeff Campbell ...

Each year on Jan. 6, as other Americans are taking down their Christmas decorations, residents in New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf South start hanging Mardi Gras beads and ordering their ...

“The Burning of the Greens is really an English custom where the live greenery used in the decoration of the church for Christmas is ... the royalty from local Mardi Gras krewes.