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From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune under the pseudonym ""Pardon Jones."" With their rural …
Cleanth Brooks may have summarized it best: ""New Orleans has become one of the cities of the mind, and is therefore immortal."" Its writers make it so. Like Richard S. Kennedy's …
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of French territory in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Although today Louisiana makes up only a small …
While sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Ruth Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho's poetry stained with muck and mold. In her efforts to restore the …