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Experience ” Breakfast at Brennan’s” – New Orleans

Flambéed Bananas Foster – created at Brennan’s in 1951   The first Owen Brennan of the Irish clan landed in New Orleans in the 1840s, fleeing the potato famine and quickly found a comfortable life in the Irish community of New Orleans, in an area known to this day as “The Irish Channel”. Eventually, a […]

The Most Interesting Places in New Orleans!

Andrew Jackson Sculpture in Jackson Square and The St. Louis Cathedral in the background. What to See & Where to See It… in NOLA.     1) Jackson Square – 700 Decatur St. Jackson Square is a historic park in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in […]

The French Quarter Festival – Galatoire’s – K-Pauls – Arnouds

Usually, a street food fair offers up samples of casual foods, like pizza, or pitas, or meat on a stick – but not in New Orleans. The French Quarter Festival in April, is a casual looking affair, but a person could eat at four or five of the greatest restaurants in the United States for […]

Benny Andrews: Artist Holding Onto His Roots @ Ogden Museum

Artworks are the intellectual property of the individual artists and © (copyright 2019) by the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees, Used with permission. The Life and Times of Benny Andrews (1930-2006) One of ten children, Benny Andrews was born on November 13, 1930, in Plainview, Georgia, a light-skinned, blue-eyed, blond-haired baby. James Orr […]

1st Person • Memories of Dad & New Orleans

“Nighttime Picture of Canal Street” In addition to Paris, Rome, Alaska and Hawaii on the list of places, you must visit someday, you dare not forget New Orleans. Ever since its founding in 1718, New Orleans has held a special place among the great cities of America and the world. By Tom Marshall – Photos […]