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No Storage? No Problem: Decluttering for Historic Homes
Occasional Wife founder Kay Morrison and two of her veteran organizers share favorite pointers for simplifying life in historic homes.
– by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Sweet Saint: Local Boy Makes Good Ice Cream
After several years of homework, a former teacher combines local pride with a child-like love of ice cream and is met with sweet success.
-By Kim Ranjbar
Dauphine Street Books on Chartres Street
After 25 years on the street that is its namesake, a classic French Quarter bookstore moves into a spacious corner location, steps from Jackson Square.
– by Christopher Louis Romaguera
Going to Pots in New Orleans
Floyd McLamb: a sharecropper's child from North Carolina turned high-powered French Quarter businessman reflects on the "high cotton" days in the neighborhood.
-by Andrew Cominelli
Voodoofest on Rue Dumaine and the Spirited Woman Behind It
For more than two decades, the original VOODOOFEST in the Quarter celebrates Halloween with drumming, dancing and a ceremony to honor the Ancestors. Meet the Voodoo Priestess who started it all.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
The Four Aspirations of Sophie Omoro
The Four Aspirations of Sophie Omoro: Before she'd turned twelve, a young girl in a small Kenyan village made an ambitious list of life goals. Becoming a fashion designer was only number two.
- story and photos by Ellis Anderson
Sweet Tea and Miss Geraldine
A summer afternoon quest for caffeine in the Quarter nets an old book, a new friend, and a gander at 300 naked people riding bicycles.
- by Nan Parati
Looking for Peace in New Orleans
One of the first Flea Market and Jazz Fest vendors, Cruz Sanchez still works in the Decatur Street store he founded fifty years ago - an island of calm in the midst of the French Quarter's whirl.
- story by Kirsten Reneau
-photos by Kirsten Reneau and Ellis Anderson and courtesy of Cruz Sanchez