A multitude of local minstrels spin tales of Mardi Gras of yore.

SEWING FEVER: BO DOLLiS AND MONK BOUDREAUX

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux tries to describe the sewing fever that heats up before Mardi Gras: "It's just a feeling that keeps you going. You got to keep on sewing. Don't ever stop, morning, noon and night."

That is, until the moment of reckoning -- Mardi Gras morning, when the door opens on probably...