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The lost bumpers of New Orleans
On the highly textured streets and sidewalks of NOLA
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Where have you and your rollerskates gone, Ruthie Miller?
Following a ghost through the archives.
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Finding New Orleans "in the spaces between buildings rather than the buildings themselves"
On Michael P. Smith, the Neighborhood Story Project, and ... ducks
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An ode to Louisiana's nuisance creatures
If you ask the right person, everything is a nuisance.
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New Orleans versus the heavy hand of Robert Moses
The Letters Read series dives into the archives to look at what "the master builder" had to say about NOLA.
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April 2023
Poets and Telephones: A Love Story
And by that, I mean "telephones," not "phones."
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Join me on Notes
A new place to connect
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A young woman of truth in Atomic City, Nevada
Finding the fragments of a life in the middle of nowhere
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The history of orange juice can curlers is still being written
There's a very important reason I picked this topic!
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Belle Cramer and the nettlesome artists of Group 15
St. Louis's rabblerousing Midcentury painters.
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March 2023
The St. Louis artist who invented the Doomsday Clock
Martyl Schweig Langsdorf was painting until her death at 96. But she's most famous for a simple magazine cover.
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Tracking Down a Clown's Obituary, at the Request of my Barista
In New Orleans, you find the best and worst of everything, including clowns.
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