Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]New Orleans is a national treasure. It holds a dear place in my heart, and likely does for anyone who has visited there. My father took me there several times as a teen. We'd drive down from Baltimore, and take in the changing scenery and culture as we headed south. I've a good buddy from New Orleans who went to school with the Marsalis brothers. His wife is also from New Orleans, and they knew each others as kids. Though they live up here in Wash, DC, they held their wedding down in New Orleans, a truly lovely - and energetic! - wedding. I used to have a g'friend out in Seattle. For a while, we would meet regularly "half way" in New Orleans. It's a wonderful city for romance. Just sitting in the courtyards internal to the old buildings there and drinking a few bottles of wine..... The haute cuisine of New Orleans alone is a reason to return again and again. And those upside down large frisbees of crawfish are superb as well. I've never made Mardi Gras, nor the Jazz Festival, and I'm sorta glad I haven't. Huge crowds of drunken tourists are not part of my memories of New Orleans (excepting Bourbon Street at night, perhaps, which always seems crowded with drunken tourists). I can only imagine the close affinity the city must hold for its actual residents. Scott SonC@aol.com wrote: > > >In a message dated 8/28/2006 7:09:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >wrs111445@yahoo.com writes: > > If any city in the world ever had more political/ institutional/ social/ >economic obstacles to recovery, I'd be surprised. >------------ >in the world? Have you ever spent any real time there? > >----------Makes one entertain thoughts that the sanest thing to do would >be >to turn the French Quarter into a theme park and return the rest to >precious >nature. > >Clearly you do not understand that precious nature is seeking to reclaim >what was hers. The sanest thing to do is to rebuild the coastal prairies >and >wetlands. The French quarter is just the bling bling of the economic >engine >that is New Orleans. > >Without the port, the Central part of the US of A will die, whither on the >vine. Most of America's grain goes through New Orleans. Rice, wheat and >corn. >Steel in, (usta be out) Petroleum, cars, motorcycles in and out. whew. >Amazing place. > >New Orleans is far more than a place for people to drink Hurricanes. If >you >do not recognize that you just don't get it. > >The problems in New Orleans are mostly the responsibility of the Corps of >Engineers, and the Levee boards. It did not help the city (in the Katrina >thing) that they voted overwhelmingly Demo in the last election. > > > > > > >Regards, >Sonny >http://www.sonc.com >Natchitoches, Louisiana >Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane >?galit?, libert?, crawfish > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)