CURED MEAT & MONSTERS OF THE DEEP
Big Walking Gator at Lake Woodruff. © Andrea Westmoreland. From Wikimedia Commons This past January, I wrote a post in which I quoted...
THE HISTORIC OSSORNO HOUSE
In a post last fall, in which I documented my trek along the modern-day path of the historic Bayou Road portage route, I mentioned the...
BRILLIANT ASSEMBLIES OF LADIES
Did you know that where the Pitot House and Desmare Playground sit now was once a 19th century pleasure garden called "the Tivoli"?...
AN INTERSECTION'S ANCIENT ENERGY Pt. 2
A couple weeks ago, I posted on my favorite New Orleans intersection: where N. Dorgenois, Bell, DeSoto, Kerlerec, and Bayou Road come...
ANCIENT AND ODD-ANGLED: THE ROAD TO BAYOU ST. JOHN
Since moving to my new address on N. Dorgenois Street, my fascination with the charming and disorienting formation of streets between...
NEW ORLEANS' FIRST CARNIVAL MASQUERADE
Imagine this: the year is 1730. You’re a 22-year-old clerk for the French Company of the Indies, and you’ve recently been sent from Paris...
CLAM SHELLS AND WHITE MAN PRATTLE
In a fluid, rockless, ever-shifting landscape—formed by the warring forces of sediment accretion and subsidence—elevation is everything....
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...
