New Orleans Mardi Gras Moments

Peggy Scott Laborde is the producer and host of Steppin' Out, which airs on WYES-TV in New Orleans. Her professional accomplishments have earned her awards from the Press Club of New Orleans and American Women in Radio and Television. She has garnered praise for her extensive efforts in conserving the arts and history of New Orleans. Laborde is also the coauthor of Pelican's Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way and Christmas in New Orleans. In her decades-long career, photographer Judi Bottoni has had her work published in Time magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and People magazine, as well as in Arthur Hardy's Mardi Gras Guide. Bottoni attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Art Institute of Minneapolis and has called New Orleans home for more than twenty years.