The Nine Times Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line Parade is scheduled for Sunday (Nov. 23). This group has paraded through the 9th Ward on the Sunday before Thanksgiving since 1998.
“We all grew up in the Ninth Ward, and Nine Times stands for the neighborhood,” Gerald Platenburg wrote as part of the Historic New Orleans Collection’s “Dancing in the Street Narratives.” “We’re brothers of the Ninth Ward when we parade. The whole Ninth Ward.”
Second line parades in New Orleans have a rich history…