Eugene Walter’s 100th birthday celebration

Cheers to 100 years of Eugene Walter, Mobile’s most celebrated and peripatetic bon vivant! Masterminded by ACCESS’s own Courtney Matthews, one hundred guests gathered for a ten course, en plain air feast on Joachim St. befitting the author, puppeteer, actor, and gourmand who famously proclaimed Mobile ‘sweet lunacy’s county seat”

photography by Stevye Murray

 

Down in Mobile, they’re all crazy, because the Gulf Coast is the kingdom of monkeys, the land of clowns, ghosts and musicians, and Mobile is sweet lunacy’s county seat.
— Eugene Walter