Pelican Girls

08/30/2026

👻Spooky Season is upon us!!! 🎃 Make plans to attend our Halloween Bash October 30, 2026!
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08/30/2026

Not to be forgotten in this scourge are the Native populations. Yellow fever hit locals tribes every bit as hard as Fort Louis. The Apalache, Chato, Talimali, and villages such as Tomeh lost hundreds of residents.

08/27/2026

The tables were now turned, even though the turnabout went at first unnoticed by the townfolk: those who had come afflicted on the Pélican were now all recovered, while those who had been healthy at the Pélican’s arrival were now all (or most all) diseased. The fever, the dizziness, the muscular debility were daily increasing and the dread of the dark vomit was prevalent indeed.

Higginbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Library of Alabama Classics) (p. 189). (Function). Kindle Edition.

08/25/2026

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The Mystic Dollys of Folly are saddened to hear about the passing of Dolly. We will continue her work of philanthropy, literacy, and spreading her love for all.

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Dolly Parton

08/25/2026

Six months is entirely too long to wait. So we’re not. 🎭🍻

We’re officially HALFWAY TO JOE CAIN DAY this Friday at Callaghan’s! Gretsch Lyles joins The Modern Eldorados for a little mid-year Mardi Gras in the OGD.

💜💚💛 Friday, August 28
Come dressed accordingly. You know the drill.

08/25/2026

08/25/2026

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Send us Fan Mail It’s INTERVIEWSDAY! This week on INTERVIEWSDAY (Interview Tuesday), we visit with Bella Myers, a Mobile-area historian and tour guide with Bienville Bites Food Tour, for an extended conversation about the remarkable women remembered as the Pelican Girls. In 1704, twenty-three youn...

08/24/2026

By this time most of the other girls were formally betrothed: Gabrielle Savary to Jean-Baptiste Saucier; Jeanne Burelle to François Trudeau; Marie-Élisabeth Des Hayes to Jean Bourbonnois; Marie-Marguerite Dufresne to Jean-Baptiste Alexandre; Angélique Drouin to Jean-Baptiste La Croix. By late August, however, the Yellow fever had attacked over half of the town’s inhabitants and several other of the marriage ceremonies had to be postponed. There were few inhabitants who felt up to entertaining or dancing or even attending a consecration. The greater part of activity in Mobile came to an abrupt halt. Two of the newly-wed girls, Catherine Tournant and Jeanne-Élisabeth Le Pinteaux soon came down with the fever, attended by the nursing “soeurs” Marie Grissot and Marie Linant.

Higginbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Library of Alabama Classics) (pp. 186-187). (Function). Kindle Edition.

08/23/2026

Love seeing us on Joe Cain Day? Come support the Joe Cain Marching Society that make it happen.

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