Houses built to resemble riverboats, the finest business hall in the world, a meteorite in a golf course, a back alley that serves as a portal of the voodoo afterwold, a 1960's time capsule, a house made of 1200 glass ashtrays, Lee Harvey ...
Author: Christian Champagne
Publisher: Jonglez Publishing
ISBN: 2361951681
Category: Travel
Page: 239
View: 854
Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, New Orleans offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. Houses built to resemble riverboats, the finest business hall in the world, a meteorite in a golf course, a back ......
New occupations unique to the Crescent City and the area are suggested, and five secret societies are covered. A scenario designed to acquaint investigators with most of New Orleans' areas completes the book.
Author: Fred Van Lente
Publisher:
ISBN: 1568823029
Category: Games
Page: 87
View: 936
New Orleans in the 1920's is a city of many faces. The gaiety of Mardi Gras is juxtaposed with the rampant corruption that earned New Orleans the nickname "The City That Care Forgot." The genteel decline of the French Quarter, the location of the city's original settlement, stands in contrast to the rich opulence of the Garden District, where the Americans later built their mansions. Voodoo and Catholicism exist peacefully side by side. And beneath it all, the face of the Mythos can sometimes be glimpsed .... This guidebook includes detailed chapters on: the history of New Orleans, the French Quarter and the greater city, and the bayous and coastal area. A chapter on voodoo includes guidelines for integrating it into Call of Cthulhu. New occupations unique to the Crescent City and the area are suggested, and five secret societies are covered. A scenario designed to acquaint investigators with most of New Orleans' areas completes the book.
Author: Mark Aspiazu, James Corbyn, and Angela Papke AspiazuPublish On: 2020-03-15
With this guide, readers can seek out Calas at Elizabeth’s Restaurant and learn how this simple sweet enabled enslaved women to buy their freedom, see how Hurricane Katrina ravaged a typical home at the Flooded House Museum, and discover ...
Author: Mark Aspiazu, James Corbyn, and Angela Papke Aspiazu
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
ISBN: 9781681062181
Category: Travel
Page: 224
View: 724
Where in New Orleans can you can bathe in Napoleon’s bathtub, step through a time machine, or eat dinner with a ghost? What religion is even stranger than Voodoo? Why take your laundry to the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll? What is the one (delicious!) drink that makes every bartender cringe? There is no denying that New Orleans is more than just another city . . . she is truly an enigma. New Orleans is a place where struggle gives way to decadence and revelry, moss-dripped southern oaks whisper tales of dueling and murder, and long-held traditions baffle—and even appall—outsiders. With this guide, readers can seek out Calas at Elizabeth’s Restaurant and learn how this simple sweet enabled enslaved women to buy their freedom, see how Hurricane Katrina ravaged a typical home at the Flooded House Museum, and discover how Josie Arlington, the city’s most famous madam, mocked her dissenters even in death while basking in the beauty of her ornate tomb in Metairie Cemetery. Secret New Orleans is an intriguing collection of obscure people, artifacts, places, and menu items that lifts the hazy veil of The Big Easy and unmasks some of its most amazingly true stories, proving to be valuable reading for visitors and locals alike!
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1978.
Author: Nathaniel Burton
Publisher:
ISBN: 160801150X
Category: Cooking
Page: 320
View: 422
Before there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs. These masters of modern Creole cuisine share the recipes, tips, and tricks from the kitchens of New Orleans' most famous restaurants, including Dooky Chase, Commander's Palace, Broussard's, and Galatoire's. Today, Creole Feast still stands as the most comprehensive collection of Creole recipes assembled in one volume. The recipes include classic dishes synonymous with New Orleans, such as gumbo, jambalaya, and red beans and rice, and also luxurious Creole dishes like Lobster Armorican and Oysters Bienville, plus tempting desserts like Creole bread pudding with whiskey sauce and the famous old Hotel Pontchantrain's Mile High Pie. With this book, home cooks will turn their kitchens into some of New Orleans premiere restaurants, helped along by fifteen master chefs.
Harriet Burbeck titled an exhibit of her drawings "Pictures in Search of a Story." She invited writers to respond with text. I used all her drawings to create this fun fairy tale, based on the true history of New Orleans music.
Author: Kay Michener
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798696089591
Category:
Page: 50
View: 805
Writing Secret of New Orleans: The illustrations came first. Harriet Burbeck titled an exhibit of her drawings "Pictures in Search of a Story." She invited writers to respond with text. I used all her drawings to create this fun fairy tale, based on the true history of New Orleans music.
I was talking and you appeared to be a million miles away. I noticed you haven't
been yourself since I arrived in New Orleans. More than once you've seemed
preoccupied about something. Is everything okay?” Jillian waved off Paige's
words.
Author: Brenda Jackson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 9781472049889
Category: Fiction
Page: 384
View: 903
It has been a year since Jillian Novak walked away from Aidan Westmoreland. But Aidan’s confident that fourteen days on a cruise ship – just him, Jillian and the deep blue sea – will reignite a passion that cannot be denied.
In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, once again gives us the straight scoop on the stories that Big Media won?t report.
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781101213414
Category: Political Science
Page: 432
View: 768
In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, once again gives us the straight scoop on the stories that Big Media won?t report. Digging up reams of documents marked ?secret? and ?confidential,? Palast provides the latest lowdown on Bush?s secret plans to seize Iraq?s oil, the fix planned for the 2008 election, who drowned New Orleans, and the horror and the humor of the War on Terror. With diligent detective work, moral outrage, and a keen sense of the absurd, Palast takes on the ?armed and dangerous clowns that rule us? as only he can.
apartment in New Orleans they “shook Oswald's library cardoutof one of Ferrie's3,000 books.” (Thereport, noranything else about it, ever appeared again.) ...
Author: H. Albarelli, Jr.
Publisher: Trine Day
ISBN: 9781936296569
Category: History
Page: 488
View: 545
Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA’s involvement in one of the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence gathered from CIA agents who reported their involvement in the assassination, the case is broken wide open while covering unexplored ground. Gritty details about the assassination are interlaced throughout, while primary and secondary players to the murder are revealed in the in-depth analysis. Although a tremendous amount has been written in the nearly five decades since the assassination, there has never been, until now, a publication to explore the aspects of the case that seemed to defy explanation or logic.
In New Orleans Carnival Balls, Jennifer Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of these exclusive soirees, bringing to light unique traditions unseen by outsiders.
Author: Jennifer Atkins
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807167564
Category: History
Page: 256
View: 996
Mardi Gras festivities don’t end after the parades roll through the streets; rather, a large part of the celebration continues unseen by the general public. Retreating to theaters, convention centers, and banquet halls, krewes spend the post-parade evening at lavish balls, where members cultivate a sense of fraternity and reinforce the organization’s shared values through pageantry and dance. In New Orleans Carnival Balls, Jennifer Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of these exclusive soirees, bringing to light unique traditions unseen by outsiders. The oldest Carnival organizations—the Mistick Krewe of Comus, Twelfth Night Revelers, Krewe of Proteus, Knights of Momus, and Rex—emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. These old-line krewes ruled Mardi Gras from the Civil War until World War I, and the traditions of their private balls reflected a need for group solidarity amidst a world in flux. For these organizations, Carnival balls became magical realms where krewesmen reinforced their elite identity through sculpted tableaux vivants performances, mock coronations, and romantic ballroom dancing. This world was full of possibilities: krewesmen became gods, kings, and knights, while their daughters became queens and maids. As the old-line krewes cultivated a sense of brotherhood, they used costume and movement to reaffirm their group identity, and the crux of these performances relied on a specific mode of expression—dancing. Using the concept of dance as a lens for examining Carnival balls, Atkins delves deeper into the historical context and distinctive rituals of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Beyond presenting readers with a new means of thinking about Carnival traditions, Atkins’s work situates dance as a vital piece of historical inquiry and a mode of study that sheds new light on the hidden practices of some of the best-known krewes in the Big Easy.
C. Ray Nagin was Mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit.
Author: Ray Nagin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 146095971X
Category: History
Page: 330
View: 177
C. Ray Nagin was Mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. He weighs in on the chaotic days leading up to and following the biggest natural and man-made disaster in America's history. He delivers exacting detail on the city's relief effort, and exposes secrets that have been glossed over or spun out.
The “ campaign " was the proposed expedition to capture New Orleans which ,
remarkably enough , Navy Secretary Gideon Welles had been keeping secret
from the War Department for months . Welles , who didn ' t even trust all his own
navy ...
Author: Dick Nolan
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: UOM:49015001276923
Category: Generals
Page: 374
View: 596
Traces the life of the Civil War general, congressman, and governor of Massachusetts, and assesses his accomplishments as a leader
money or immigrants to improve it causing New Orleans to grow slowly, which created severe labor shortages and encouraged the importation of African slaves ...
Author: Betty Lynne Hull
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475936834
Category: Fiction
Page: 164
View: 238
The moment Martha Jefferson discovers that a few drops of Negro blood course through her aristocratic veins, she knows she will do anything to keep this terrible secret from her politically ambitious husband, Thomas. When fire strikes Monticello, the resulting repairs to Thomas Jefferson's historic home reveal a human skeleton, and the questions begin. . . the "when" is easily discovered, but the "who" and the "why" weave a tantalizing mystery that is Monticello's dark secret. In this well-researched novel, which successfully melds historical fact with an intriguing 'what if', we are led back in time to the gripping tale of two women, Martha Jefferson and Betty Hemings, mother of infamous Sally Hemings, both forgotten threads in the rich tapestry of America's history. Nothing about them save their names has survived the centuries-- not a likeness nor a personal letter. We know both belonged to the same man, Thomas Jefferson, one through the vows of marriage and the other through the laws of slavery, and that both lived, dreamed and died in Virginia at a time in our new Nation when fact was more exciting than fiction. Now, we can finally know and understand them as they might have been.
This new edition includes a foreword from author Jim Marr.
Author: Edward T. Haslam
Publisher: TrineDay
ISBN: 9781937584986
Category: Medical
Page: 432
View: 490
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into cover-ups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys. This new edition includes a foreword from author Jim Marr.
A textbook on the history, technique, and culture of jazz music, written by a University of Pittsburgh music professor. Covers everything from the origins of jazz and its development to the great musicians of the genre. Includes suggested reading and listening. Bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
