Alma Claire Maleckar Bear, Second Line

The Second Line parade for Alma Claire Maleckar Bear began on Friday, December 9th 2011, at sundown. The three mile route went from the 1300 block of St. Roch Avenue:*

in the St. Roch neighborhood, left onto Marais, right on Port St., then a left onto St. Claude Avenue, with a stop at St. Coffee, crossed St. Claude Avenue at St. Ferdinand, then right onto Press Street into the Bywater, a left onto Dauphine, a right on Piety, then right onto Royal with a stop outside Alma’s studio:

After some songs there, we continued along Royal into the Marigny, stopped at Mimi’s for libations and a bathroom break (and for some of us, the coffee across the street), then continued on Royal, left on Esplanade to Decatur and into the French Quarter, where we met up with a cop — who didn’t want the parade to continue (and for which there was indeed a permit). Luckily, we were with a dear friend of my nieces, Molly and Alma — Naomi — who is a lawyer and had no problem getting him to agree to the second line continuation with a slight modification onto the Moon Walk, where we lit candles, scattered some of Alma’s ashes into the Mississippi River and sang.

And shot off fireworks.

And wept.

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After the rituals on the river, we all made our way back to Cafe Envie on Decatur in the French Quarter, where David Bear and Alma Maleckar met and then later had their wedding reception.

On Saturday, December 10 at 5 p.m., the Jackson Square Artists presented a candlelight memorial with a wreath hung on the fence at Decatur Avenue (actually, this video was shot before the candles; when Bill moves the camera to the right, you can see Uncle Peter Arnold, and yours truly and my Dad [with sunglasses] just beyond):

Here are some of the pictures I took, along with Alma’s table at the front of the Mater Dolorosa Church (on Carrollton, uptown) after the funeral mass earlier on Friday.

There are orbs on a number of the photos from the Second Line. I don’t know what those are. I’ll leave it up to you to decide.
*post updated 12/15/11 with videos from Uncle Bill Arnold!