Stories of New Orleans - Cajun, Andre; Magill, John
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Andrew Jackson Navard moved to New Orleans as a young man and worked as a riverboat captain. He eventually found his niche entertaining travelers with historical parodies of Louisiana's rich traditions. Those embellished tales fill the pages of this vintage book written under his pen name of Andre Cajun, an homage to his Cajun roots. Part history, part fiction, and entirely entertaining, these vignettes cover everything from a tongue-in-cheek exposï¿1/2 of the Quadroon Ballroom to the notorious Basin Street to a short biography of John McDonogh, founder of the education system in New Orleans…mehr

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Andrew Jackson Navard moved to New Orleans as a young man and worked as a riverboat captain. He eventually found his niche entertaining travelers with historical parodies of Louisiana's rich traditions. Those embellished tales fill the pages of this vintage book written under his pen name of Andre Cajun, an homage to his Cajun roots. Part history, part fiction, and entirely entertaining, these vignettes cover everything from a tongue-in-cheek exposï¿1/2 of the Quadroon Ballroom to the notorious Basin Street to a short biography of John McDonogh, founder of the education system in New Orleans and Boston, to fascinating tales of the bone piles of New Orleans's cemeteries. For Navard, a explanation of the effects of Yellow Jack in the South fuels his claim for Louisiana's strong medical communities. Presented here with an informative foreword by John T. Magill, esteemed curator/historian for The Historic New Orleans Collection, Navard's unabashed exuberance for all things piratical and his taste for embellishment are celebrated much as they have been since this collection was originally released in 1941. This new printing recreates the 1951 edition with the addition of Magill's foreword, providing illuminating historical context.
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