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On Mardi Gras, 2021

2/17/2021

 
Quarter Notes - February 2021
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Jackson Square, Mardi Gras day 2021
A young writer roaming the French Quarter during this historic Carnival discovers different doesn't mean dead.  

- story and photos by Kirsten Reneau


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Haunted Streets

11/27/2020

 
Quarter Notes - November 2020
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A tour guide well-versed in the ghoulish tales of the French Quarter's history finds the present day offers its own spooky circumstances. 

- by Glennis Waterman
- photos by Ellis Anderson 


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In Memoriam: Lost Lands

8/27/2020

 
Quarter Notes - August 2020
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This modern-day rendering by New Orleans artists Jim Blanchard depicts the James Muggah family's new and improved hotel on Isle Derniere. Never realized, construction on the expanded hotel was set to being at the close of the 1856 summer season. The Muggahs had contracted with the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans to manage the project and had collected a consortium of eager investors. Ironically, the hotel was to have been called The Trade Winds.

Hurricane Laura was the worst storm to hit Louisiana since the one that erased the Island of Derniere in 1856, when thirteen ancestors of the writer perished. 

- by Bethany Ewald Bultman
- illustrations courtesy Bethany Ewald Bultman


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Bourbon Street and the Baptist Preacher

1/25/2020

 
Quarter Notes - January 2020
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Bourbon Street at Iberville, 1956. Photo courtesy the Richard R. Dixon/Cole Coleman Collection, gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Dixon, The Historic New Orleans Collection, acc. no. 1980.257.290
Tag along with this sharp-eyed Southern writer, her widowed aunt and a very unlikely guide on a 1960s trip to Bourbon Street.
 
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson


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It's Fruitcake Weather

12/11/2019

 
Quarter Notes - December 2019
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Truman Capote and Sook
Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory possesses the power to make even contemporary readers summon up their own most-cherished holiday recollections. 

-by Rheta Grimsley Johnson


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She Had a Song to Sing

11/27/2019

 
Quarter Beat - November 2019
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Image courtesy Estate of Leigh Harris
Beloved by her "Dawlin' New Orleans," Leigh Harris was renowned for both her powerhouse talent and her life affirming spirit.  

- by Dar Wolnik
- photos by Kerry Maloney, Tom Redfield and the estate of Leigh Harris 


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Something About Gina Forsyth

11/20/2019

 
Quarter Beats - November 2019
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Gina Forsyth on the bayou. photo by Ellis Anderson
With a wicked sense of humor, stellar instrumental skills and a voice that stirs listeners, this singer-songwriter hits all the heart notes. 

- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson


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The Bay St. Louis Booker

11/12/2019

 
Quarter Notes - Guest Writers
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James Booker mural by "Preacher," 2118 St. Claude Avenue.

​On November 8, 1983 - 36 years ago this week - legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker passed on.  While his legacy grows even stronger in the city, recent interviews with Bay St. Louis family members give details about Booker's early life on the Mississippi coast - and explain why "the Bay" became one of his touchstones. 

- by Edward Gibson ​


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Blood Type FQ

9/19/2019

 
Quarter Notes - September 2019
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A New York writer finds that a year of French Quarter living leaves him with an undiminished  devotion to the neighborhood. 

- by Richard Goodman
- photos by Ellis Anderson and William Widmer


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The Black Penny

8/24/2019

 
Quarter Notes - September 2019
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This North Rampart Street bar offers all the elements needed for a great neighborhood hangout according to this month's guest columnist, Konrad Kantor. 


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