In 1940 these are the girls in the Lyon High School basketball team which would represent Covington in the state tournament. Click on the image to make it larger.
Monday, March 16, 2026
Saturday, March 14, 2026
St. Patrick Parade 2026
The Covington Celtic Club hosted the 2026 St. Patrick's Day Parade on the streets of downtown Covington on Saturday, March 14, 2026. Hundreds of people lined the streets to enjoy the procession, which included bands, dance groups, decorated cars, a couple of Irish wolfhounds and dozens of participants throwing beads, heads of cabbage, and generally making merry.
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The parade started at the intersection of Columbia and Lockwood streets, went down Columbia to Gibson, then eastward on Gibson to Lee Lane. From there, it travelled south to Rutland and headed west to North New Hampshire, where it ended at Jewel's Cigar Shop with a block cordoned off for partying, cooling off, and talking about the experience.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
14th of July Celebrations
Everyone is familiar with a big celebration on July 4th, the celebration of American independence. But for many years, St. Tammany residents, especially those of French descent, also celebrated the 14th of July. There was a big parade, sometimes with fireworks and special French dignitaries on hand.
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Abita Springs hosted the biggest annual celebrations, forming a 14th of July Society that organized and held the event, with the proceeds donated towards several civic projects around town. It was all to commemorate Bastille Day, the fall of the Bastille prison in 1789 during the French Revolution. Local people with French ancestors marked the occasion of their forebears freedom, along with their own freedom won in the July 4th celebration.
St. Tammany's observance of Bastille Day began in the late 1880's and went through the 1930's.
The Abita Fourteen of July Society was active for years, with a special parade and other festivities on that date. With the proceeds from a variety of dances and banquets, the group participated in a number of community improvement projects: they erected a flagpole and memorial marker honoring those who served in World War I and helped other organizations with worthwhile causes.Each year the Abita group put together a large parade featuring a line of cars that not only went around town, but beginning in 1930 travelled down to Mandeville and over to Covington as well. Parades in later years featured specially decorated cars and a contest to choose the best one. There were also dances, banquets, bazaars and balls, and the society also took part in a variety of community activities, including the parish fair.
It was also active in the local observance of Armistice Day. on November 11 of each year.
The first mention in local newspapers was in 1888
Mulberry Grove in Covington 1896
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Chinchuba in 1896
Abita Springs
Mandeville celebrated both the 4th and the 14th
In Covington, the fire department got into the celebration.
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Abita Springs launched a series of gala events.
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The 14th of July Society Is Organized
1929
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1930
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The parades became larger and larger
1931
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