New Orleans
Crossing Lake Pontchartrain and now its Paul Bradys song I hear. Bayous and a speed boat racing us.
Tonight I'll stay in the Bourbon Orleans Hotel which occupies the building where the Quadroon Balls were held and later it became the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family an order founded by Sister Henriette DeLille, a free woman of color.
In Galway Bay she is a character who welcomes Honora, Maire and their children. Magically a woman who came to the reading at 57th Street Books in Chicago is a descendant of a cousin of Sister Henriette's! Marie Laveau is a character too. Wonder what other magic awaits us at the Maple Street Book Store.
Tonight I'll stay in the Bourbon Orleans Hotel which occupies the building where the Quadroon Balls were held and later it became the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family an order founded by Sister Henriette DeLille, a free woman of color.
In Galway Bay she is a character who welcomes Honora, Maire and their children. Magically a woman who came to the reading at 57th Street Books in Chicago is a descendant of a cousin of Sister Henriette's! Marie Laveau is a character too. Wonder what other magic awaits us at the Maple Street Book Store.
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