New Orleans People were out in force in the Holy Angels meeting space in my neighborhood of Bywater in New Orleans. I got there ten minutes after the announced starting time, and it was standing room only. The convener said they had one-hundred explanatory packets laid out on table tops, but they clearly had …
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Signs at the Borderland of Gentrification
New Orleans In New Orleans in the Bywater-Marigny neighborhoods where I live and work were in the throes of a long drawn out, desultory stretch for decades since the 1980s. We were going to be “hot” one day, but who knew when. Into the latter years of the 20th Century, one thing or another like the …
There Goes the Neighborhood
New Orleans I don’t know why I continue to be surprised at the changes in my own neighborhood, Bywater in New Orleans. I’ve seen the joggers, dog walkers, and strollers in the streets. I’ve noticed the porkpie hipster hats and the bicycles rolling by at all hours of the day and night. I’ve read the statistics, …