St. Louis Cemetery No. 3: The Peaceful One on the Bayou
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3: The Peaceful One on the BayouSt. Louis Cemetery No. 3 is the youngest and least visited of the three St. Louis cemeteries, and that is exactly what makes it special. Estab...
Chalmette National Cemetery: Hallowed Ground on a Battlefield
Chalmette National Cemetery: Hallowed Ground on a BattlefieldChalmette National Cemetery sits on one of the most historically significant pieces of land in the United States—the site of the Battle ...
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: America's First Rock Star Was a Creole Pianist
America's First Rock Star Was a Creole PianistLouis Moreau Gottschalk was born in New Orleans on May 8, 1829, into a Creole family that straddled the city's cultural lines — his father was a London...
Truman Capote: The New Orleans Boy Who Invented True Crime
Born in New Orleans, Raised by the WorldTruman Streckfus Persons was born on September 30, 1924, in Touro Infirmary on Prytania Street in the Garden District. His parents — Lillie Mae Faulk and Arc...
Tom Benson: The Man Who Kept the Saints in New Orleans
Tom Benson: The Man Who Kept the Saints in New OrleansTom Benson is the reason the New Orleans Saints still play in New Orleans. The auto dealer turned billionaire purchased the struggling franchis...
Anthony Mackie: From the Seventh Ward to Captain America
Anthony Mackie: From the Seventh Ward to Captain AmericaAnthony Mackie grew up in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, went to NOCCA and then Juilliard, and became Captain America. That sentence alone ...
A. Baldwin Wood: The Engineer Who Made New Orleans Possible
A. Baldwin Wood: The Engineer Who Made New Orleans PossibleAlbert Baldwin Wood is the most important person in New Orleans history that most people have never heard of. Born in 1879, Wood was a mec...
Henriette DeLille: The Free Woman of Color on the Path to Sainthood
Henriette DeLille: The Free Woman of Color on the Path to SainthoodHenriette DeLille is on track to become the first African-American saint in the Catholic Church. Born in 1812 in New Orleans as a ...
Samuel Zemurray: The Banana Man Who Ran Central America from New Orleans
Samuel Zemurray: The Banana Man Who Ran Central America from New OrleansSamuel Zemurray was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who arrived in America with nothing and built one of the most powerful corpora...
Jelly Roll Morton: The Man Who Claimed He Invented Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton: The Man Who Claimed He Invented JazzFerdinand Joseph LaMothe—Jelly Roll Morton—was the most colorful, controversial, and consequential figure in the early history of jazz. Born i...
John Kennedy Toole: The Genius Who Died Before the World Found Out
John Kennedy Toole: The Genius Who Died Before the World Found OutJohn Kennedy Toole wrote one of the funniest and most New Orleans novels ever created, and he never lived to see it published. A Co...
Anne Rice: The Woman Who Made New Orleans the Vampire Capital of the World
Anne Rice: The Woman Who Made New Orleans the Vampire Capital of the WorldBefore Anne Rice, vampires lived in Transylvania. After Anne Rice, they lived on Prytania Street. The novelist who was born...
Mount Olivet Cemetery: The Multicultural Resting Place of Gentilly
Mount Olivet Cemetery: The Multicultural Resting Place of GentillyMount Olivet Cemetery in Gentilly is one of the most culturally diverse burial grounds in New Orleans. Established in 1918, it is y...
Carrollton Cemetery: The Small-Town Graveyard Inside a Big City
Carrollton Cemetery: The Small-Town Graveyard Inside a Big CityCarrollton Cemetery is one of the most charming and least known burial grounds in New Orleans. Established in 1849—when Carrollton was...
Odd Fellows Rest: The Secret Cemetery on Canal Street
Odd Fellows Rest: The Secret CemeteryOdd Fellows Rest is one of the most mysterious cemeteries in New Orleans—a walled burial ground that most people have driven past a thousand times without ever ...
Dispersed of Judah Cemetery: New Orleans’ Jewish Heritage in Stone
Dispersed of Judah Cemetery: New Orleans’ Jewish Heritage in StoneDispersed of Judah Cemetery is one of the most historically significant Jewish burial grounds in the American South. Established in...
Jim Garrison: The New Orleans DA Who Put the JFK Conspiracy on Trial
The DA Who Put the JFK Assassination on TrialEarling Carothers "Jim" Garrison was born in Denison, Iowa, in 1921, but he became a New Orleans man — the kind of larger-than-life, controversy-courtin...
Amy Coney Barrett: The Metairie Girl Who Reached the Supreme Court
The Metairie Girl on the Supreme CourtAmy Vivian Coney was born on January 28, 1972, in New Orleans and grew up in Metairie — the sprawling Jefferson Parish suburb that sits just west of the city l...
Cosimo Matassa: The Recording Studio Where Rock and Roll Was Born
The Man Behind the BoardCosimo Matassa never sang a note on a hit record. He never played an instrument on stage. He never wrote a song that climbed the charts. But without Cosimo Matassa, the soun...
Edgar Degas in New Orleans: When an Impressionist Master Painted on Esplanade Avenue
The Impressionist Master Who Painted on Esplanade AvenueIn October 1872, one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art stepped off a ship in New Orleans. Edgar Degas — the French Impre...
