BSJ's STUBBORN SHIPYARDS
In the 1920s and ‘30s, thanks in no small part to the New Deal, Bayou St. John got a huge makeover. No more mudflats and sunken garbage!...
A BRIDGE'S MANY LIVES
Did you know that the historic, blue-tinted bridge spanning Bayou St. John across from Cabrini High School—colloquially referred to as...
BOYS OF THE BAYOU: THEN AND NOW
While attending last week’s July 4th boat parade on Bayou St. John, led by the Krewe of Kolossos, I was reminded of a letter I came...
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...
CASCADES OF ENERGY: A WHIMSICAL TAKE
These Bayou St. John: A Brief History posts have become a way for the two sides of my writing life to converge: the history and the...
A BUNDLE OF GATOR PARTS: NO BIG DEAL
Fun fact: the historic blue-tinted bridge we all call the Cabrini bridge (above), built some time in the mid 19th century, was for many...
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...
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...
