Sunday, March 8, 2015

New Orleans - March 3-8, 2015

March 3, 2015 - Walking Around the French Quarter and Seeing the Preservation Hall Jazz Band



Moon over Bourbon Street:




More walking on Bourbon Street:









One of dozens of really good street bands:



 No photos of the Preservation Hall musicians allowed!



March 4, 2015 - More French Quarter and Some Mississippi River

Jazz Legends Park (where we got our Beignets in the morning) on Bourbon Street:










Chartres Street:




St. Louis Cathedral on Royal Street. Pretty creepy at night:


 But just a statue during the day:




Walking along the Mississippi:


This is the same ship on which we took our dinner cruise the next evening:



March 5, 2015 - Touring the Mansions of the Garden District, and Taking the Dinner Cruise


It was 75 degrees and sunny until this point. This day it was 35 degrees (!) and raining!



A row of "spec" houses built 100+ years ago:


This house is famous for its corn stalk fence. It's for sale: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1448-4th-St_New-Orleans_LA_70130_M87498-01425





Previously Nicolas Cage's house, a real beauty. Apparently he had to sell it to pay his taxes: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2523-Prytania-St_New-Orleans_LA_70130_M84849-10031









We took a tour inside this home, which was a relief because of the rain and cold. It's the New Orleans Opera Guild at 2504 Prytania Street (http://operaguildhome.org/history-opera-guild-home/):











Beautiful table built from a European church confessional:












Lafayette Cemetery #1:












Getting ready to board the Natchez for our jazz dinner cruise:



Dinner time aboard the Natchez! Sat next to some very nice people from Australia -- Glen & Sandra -- who it turned out were not only on the same Caribbean cruise with us but on the same flight back to L.A.!


March 6, 2015 - Touring the Laura Plantation in Vacherie, LA

http://www.lauraplantation.com/ 



Main "operations" building where business was conducted by the family, which had their main residences in New Orleans:





That's Laura 3rd from the left in the bottom row:



The first page of Laura's hand-written diary:


Family photos...I believe that is Elizabeth at the top center. She was Laura's grandmother and one...tough...cookie:



The dining room table:



These small buildings outside the back of the main house were for cooking and other trades:










More buildings in the back. Some were slave quarters, but the homes of the slaves extended up to 3 miles away from this area:



Another family building -- the larger one on the left -- undergoing some repairs:



 March 7, 2015 - Guided Tour of the French Quarter (focusing on Laura and her family)

St. Louis Cemetery Number 1:










Some of Laura's parents and grandparents are interred here. They didn't get along very well so some are buried elsewhere. Laura (1861 - 1963) is buried in St. Louis:






Back to the French Quarter:














Jackson Square, with statue of Andrew Jackson: (That's the front of St. Louis Cathedral in the background):









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