{"id":153,"date":"2018-06-14T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:48:35","slug":"aids-awareness-bal-masque-iii-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/aids-awareness-bal-masque-iii-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystic Krewe of the Druids: Description\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/?pdfemb-serveurl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.lib.ua.edu%2Fblogs%2Fempoweringvoices%2Ffiles%2Fsecurepdfs%2F2018%2F06%2FWAAO-003_fs.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-download-nonce=\"cc5a9cb264\" data-disablerightclick=\"on\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">WAAO-003_fs<br\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Title<\/td>\n<td>Mystic Krewe of the Druids<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Date<\/td>\n<td>1996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Description<\/td>\n<td>In 1992, a small Mardi Gras party was held at Michael&#8217;s Lounge in Tuscaloosa to raise money for West Alabama AIDS Outreach. The Mystic Krewe of the Druids (the name is based on Tuscaloosa&#8217;s nickname as &#8220;The Druid City&#8221;) began the next year. They held Tuscaloosa&#8217;s first Bal Masque in 1994 to raise money for WAAO; that same year, AIDS was declared the leading cause of death among all 25-to-44-year-olds in the United States. This page from the third annual Bal Masque program explains a bit more about the Mystic Krewe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Donor<\/td>\n<td>Gift of&nbsp;Billy D. Kirkpatrick, West Alabama AIDS Outreach executive director&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Collection<\/td>\n<td>West Alabama AIDS Outreach Records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Repository<\/td>\n<td>The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Related Items<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/empoweringvoices\/aids-awareness-mystic-krewe-of-the-druids-presents-bal-masque-v\/\">The Mystic Krewe of the Druids Presents Bal Masque V, &#8220;Holidazed and Confused<\/a>&#8220;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Mystic Krewe of the Druids Date 1996 Description In 1992, a small Mardi Gras party was held at Michael&#8217;s Lounge in Tuscaloosa to raise money for West Alabama AIDS Outreach. The Mystic Krewe of the Druids (the name is based on Tuscaloosa&#8217;s nickname as &#8220;The Druid City&#8221;) began the next year. 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