The Bible and Culture

This post gives you a peak at the decor of the homes of the well off who can afford to buy and refurbish an old house in the quarter. Notice they all are more spacious (walls have been knocked out) and all have big beds!If you ask me, I agree with Scarlet O'Hara.... give me the old ways, and the old days, without the slavery, and with air conditioning for a city like Nola! … [Read more...]

On the whole I enjoy seeing the older houses with older furniture etc, but I'd rather live in one of the more modernized houses in the quarter, though I could do without some of the decor and art etc. you find in these house. For example, here is a beautiful old four poster bed in the Patout houseOr consider this old bed with hand-carved spindles....Or consider the old traditional variegated ceiling both one partially refurbished and another completely refurbished...Not … [Read more...]

Notice the sign in the window--- No Air B+B! The locals are not happy with corporations buying up vintage homes and turning them into Bed and Breakfasts.Lots of things get repurposed in the Quarter--- old doors, mirrors, masks,signs, wine racks, bathroom fixtures, shutters, flower pots you name it. … [Read more...]

Most of these houses are at least two stories high, some are three. If you can't go wide, go tall. Here's a view from an upstairs window.There were five houses on the Springfest tour this year, two more traditional the other three quite modern. Here are some shots from the Bonnecarre house which is decorated more traditionally.This wallpaper was brought over from England.The Bonnecarre house belongs now to the French Quarter Trust, and is used for weddings because of … [Read more...]

There are all manner of houses in the French Quarter from the squalid to the splendid, and some dating back to the Napoleonic era when America did not own the Louisiana Purchase. The house above is one of my favorites, and it comes with a nice vintage car as well! One of the tell tale signs is the typical French ornate railings on balconies and elsewhere.During the earlier eras of New Orleans people were taxed on the basis of how wide a house and how many windows one could afford, and … [Read more...]

Spring is of course also Lent, and the Easter season, and so various houses in the French Quarter were all decorated for occasion with the appropriate Easter colors.Quite naturally you expect to see some Southern belles in their finery in Nola at this season, and when we did the house tour of the French Quarter we were not disappointed.Nola is predominantly a Catholic city, no surprise what with the French heritage, and here is a sad reminder of the old days--- a husband and … [Read more...]

Ah Nola (which is short for New Orleans La.). It is a city of many faces and flavors. It is one of the birth places of classic jazz, and the place where Cajun meets Creole meets ole Southern cooking and creates an amazing gumbo. Me personally, I'm partial to the charbroiled oysters and the red snapper lightly breaded, not to mention the crawfish poboys etc. I was in Nola for the next to the last Greer-Heard forums, for a friendly and congenial dialogue with my old friend and colleague, A.-J. … [Read more...]