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Caroling in Jackson Square 2025
Since 1946, Patio Planters of the Vieux Carre has hosted a candlelit caroling in Jackson Square, a generational holiday tradition for many New Orleanians.
- photos by Melanie Cole
Artist Glenn E. Miller: Looking Closer
An aspiring artist arrives in the mid-60s French Quarter to begin his career in Jackson Square – one that would include several misadventures and six decades of pushing the creative envelope.
– by Michael Warner
Jamie Chiarello: Portraits of Profound Humanity
This no-holds-barred artist explores the beauty of imperfection in her portraits, paintings – and handwritten signage – in Jackson Square.
– by Caroline Rowe
Sean Friloux - Plein Air on Jackson Square
A rare plein air watercolorist finds endless subject matter by exploring shadows in the city of his ancestors.
-by Caroline Rowe
Elaine Adel Cummins: The World Comes to You
A second-generation Jackson Square artist, Elaine Cummins got her first license to hang “on the fence” when she was only 16. More than forty years later, she’s still happily painting there.
-by J. Michael Warner
Terri Antholzner: Flower Child
For over four decades, the pushcart peddler has been doing her annual spring thing—spreading love, peace, and happiness on Jackson Square.
-by Doug Brantley
How Emilie Rhys Found Her Father – and Her Groove
Seeking a relationship with her estranged father, noted New Orleans painter Noel Rockmore, a young woman travels to the Quarter in 1977 for a year of discovery.
– by Michael Warner
Caroling in the Square 2024
The 80th anniversary of this favorite holiday event entertained thousands in Jackson Square - including a joyous centenarian.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
The Sound and Fury over “Sound and Light”
A mayor’s three-year push to establish a garish tourist spectacle in the city’s historic heart united thousands of French Quarter lovers across New Orleans in the ‘70s, who fought back with protests, petitions and legal action.
– by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Jackson Square Protest - June 5
Jackson Square Protest - June 5: Friday evening, much of New Orleans waited with bated breath in hopes the protest in the French Quarter would be peaceful. The rest of the city attended. Thousands rallied in front of Jackson Square in a remarkable show of solidarity against racism.
-Ellis Anderson
Up From the Ashes: Rebuilding the Cabildo
Fire is the mortal enemy of the city's oldest neighborhood, but in the case of the 1988 Cabildo inferno, dedicated preservationists prevailed in the end.
- by Michael Warner
The 67th Annual Red Mass
The annual Red Mass was held Monday morning, October 7, at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, offering up prayers for those in the legal profession - judges, attorneys, law school professors and students.
According the the Louisiana State Bar Association, the tradition "is celebrated all over the world, including Rome, Paris and London. The practice dates back hundreds of years and typically serves as the opening of the judicial year."
- photography by Kerry Maloney