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The Vieux Carre Courier: Guarding the Gates of the Neighborhood
In the early 1970s, a fearless editor for a feisty French Quarter newspaper defends the historic neighborhood, taking inspiration from past preservation battles - both won and lost.
– by Bethany Ewald Bultman
The Ultimate Outsider: A 1995 Interview with Gypsy Lou Webb
In the 1960s, “Gypsy” Lou Webb and husband Jon Webb worked out of a tiny French Quarter apartment and published ground-breaking work by beat writers like Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Langston Hughes, and Jack Kerouac. Thirty years later, she looks back at her literary life in New Orleans.
-by Dennis Fomento
The Last Forgerons
In 1920, the last in a line of French Quarter forgerons put down their hammers, never again to create the wonderfully detailed wrought iron fences and balconies of New Orleans.
– by Michael Warner
Everything Under the Sun: The Quorum Club
A haven for free-thinkers in the mid-60s, the Esplanade Avenue coffee house broke racial barriers of the day – and paid a price.
— By Mary Rickard
Danseuse du Roi - The Life of Suzanne Vaillandé Douvillier
A mysterious dancer in the early 1800s mesmerized crowds and caused consternation by cross-dressing and challenging social norms.
Up From the Ashes: Rebuilding the Cabildo
Fire is the mortal enemy of the city's oldest neighborhood, but in the case of the 1988 Cabildo inferno, dedicated preservationists prevailed in the end.
- by Michael Warner
The Sound of a Positive Vibration
Boho Back Pages: Was the matronly New Orleans stenographer who founded a French Quarter temple the guru everyone in the 1960s was seeking? At least one follower still believes.
by Michael Warner
That Heathen Crowd at the Green Shutter
In the Roaring 20s, feisty Uptown socialite Martha Westfeldt opens a French Quarter bookstore that becomes Bohemia Central.
- by Michael Warner