All Around Us |
Never forget the importance of the past. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth is to remain a child forever. -- Author Unknown |
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We can learn a lot from the survivors of the species. -- Robert Fulghum |
Anyone can find history in a museum, creative explorers find it in places where others never think to seek it. -- Robert Wendell |
In New Orleans, our way of life is as old as the oaks that brush the ground. We tend to live our cherished past a lot of the time. For us, history is not a marker on the side of the road or a small district of quaint shops. Our past stands all around us, bears down on us like the towers of Manhattan on a first-time visitor. It is not just the momentous events of our history which occupy us, a thousand small things from the past inform the way we live in the present. Our history is a part of who we are, the great pillared oaks and the moss-draped homes are just backdrop. And if our history should consume us all one by one, but the city lives on, that, perhaps, was what was always intended. -- Mark Folse, "Carry Me Home" |
Photos on this page are courtesy of Kepguru, MyWildLouisiana, SouthLouisianaCuisine, NotesFromTheCrawfishPond, AtchafalayaBasinFestival |