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|  | | Masking and Madness: Mardi Gras in New Orleans
A luminous portrait of the celebration that defines America's most profanely spiritual city. A picture book and witty history devoted to the costumes of Carnival.
to be completed | |  | | The Majesty of St. Charles Avenue
A five-mile trip down the eclectic, tree-shrouded boulevard that traces the history of New Orleans' "American" expansion.
"If the people of New Orleans can come to Carrollton in twenty minutes, and by steam … they will come by the thousands ... the intervening avenue will, like the street of palaces in Venice, be lined on both sides with magnificent abodes, the luxurious homes, either of wealth retired, or wealth yet in its industrial harness."
So wrote railroad manager Thomas Harper in 1837 about the future of the boulevard that would run alongside his young rail line. A century and a half later, St. Charles Avenue stands as a glorious fulfillment of that prediction.
Venerable, maternal live oaks |
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