Articles with keyword "New Orleans"
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Preparing for the Worst
An emergency guide helps save historical collections from the elements.
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Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans
The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.
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The White Pelican
Laurent Verdin Sr. of Crooked Bayou Blue spent a lifetime carving the birds of his native Louisiana. Most of the thousands he made were functional duck decoys for hunters.
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Great Scott!
In an “abandoned tramp’s hotel that had become too filthy even for the tramps,” a bohemian circle of actors, writers, and society figures founded Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in 1919, one of the fi
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"Saving Fats"
Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou