LOAFING ROWDIES AND GOOSE RACES
This past New Year’s Eve, there was no shortage of conflict between revelers and police along Bayou St. John. I personally witnessed a...
FLUNG ROSES AND STOPLIGHT GRAVEYARDS
After a long hiatus, bayou posts are back! I know you’ve been waiting on tenterhooks…. After four months of more general Bayou St. John...
HATCHETS, SLEEPWALKERS, AND DRUNKEN BEARS
More Times-Picayune gems for your perusal, culled from my Bayou St. John research on the Times-Picayune Historical database this past...
FIREWORKS, PANTALOONS, AND STRANGE DUELS
And now for some completely disparate events, united only by location (but come on: location is everything). From The Times-Picayune, May...
BAYOU BIKE RIDE
Over the weekend, my best-adventure-companion Lauren Gauthier and I took a bike ride from the bottom of the bayou to the top. That is,...
VOODOO ON THE BAYOU
Last night, I was lucky enough to attend the annual St. John's Eve voodoo head-washing ceremony, led by Sallie Ann Glassman's La Source...
BAYOU RAMBLINGS
"STATEMENT OF EVES LEGENDRE—WATCHMAN CHIEF FEBRUARY 21, 1938 Mr. Richards, Watchman John D. Thomas reported to me at his post #42 at...
WHAT THE BAYOU HAS TAUGHT ME SO FAR
What I've learned from my first week of research: enter research institution with a full stomach and an empty bladder; do not attempt to...
MEET: "THE BAYOU BOOK"
Over the course of the next two years, in time for the New Orleans Tricentennial in 2018, I will be writing a narrative history of the...
