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Misrule Reigns in New Orleans

The Mardi Gras season is in full swing in New Orleans this week. With each passing day, the crowds grow larger, the parade routes longer and the floats more elaborate until the festivities  culminate on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, March 4. On that day, from dawn until midnight, natives take to the streets dressed in costumes […]

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Valentine’s Day Snowstorm of 1895

Everybody’s complaining about the cold winter weather in New Orleans this year. There’s no doubt that snow from Texas to Georgia is unusual this far south. But not unheard of. Browsing through old photos on Commons.wikimedia this morning, I came upon this postcard of Canal Street, New Orleans, after the St. Valentine’s Day snowstorm in […]

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Yellow Fever Kills Fictitious Men

Mary reporting. A recent blogpost suggested more than 400 ways to kill a character, listing every possible calamity from avalanche to tropical fevers. My writing partner and I had to kill three men before chapter 1. When we outlined The Willing Widow, our first romance in the Love in New Orleans series, we created widows […]

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