Almost all the New Orleans cemeteries are open to the public. At the present time one of the most popular near Commander’s Palace restaurant is closed due to repairs. But all other ones are open. The St. Louis Cemetery, owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, currently have restrictions on how many can enter at a time. To access this cemetery you need a guided tour. You can go to Cemetery Tours New Orleans to book a visit. This is probably

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How New Orleans celebrates its dead is unique to the rest of the United States. And a lot of what we do comes from African and Latin American cultures.   We have something called second line which started as part of a funeral procession from the black community where the mourners walk from the church to the cemetery, the first part the band plays a slow dirge and then after that the music changes to something more lively. Usually the tune

Many believe that the flooding of New Orleans during Katrina had to do with the water overtopping the levees and the flood walls. This is not true. The city was flooded by the incompetence of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Everyone in the city knows this to be true.   The 17th Street Canal had flood walls of sheet piling that did not extend all the way to the clay soil. People who lived along the New Orleans side of

New Orleans was built on a crescent in the Mississippi. The story goes that it was actually built on a site that was sacred to the Indians. Is it any wonder that New Orleans is perhaps the most spiritual city in America? We have tons of churches and religious ceremonies throughout the year, the biggest is Mardi Gras. Yes, it is a religious celebration that comes before Ash Wednesday.   The city is built on a natural levee and the old

New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Sieur de Bienville who was actually Canadian. The spot that he picked was recommended by the Natives of the area at the time. It had a natural levee that help to protect it from seasonal flooding when the Mississippi River overflowed its banks.   There were many times in the early days when that levee could not contain the river and the French Quarter was inundated by water. So in its early days the

New Orleans can absolutely survive another hurricane. What a question! We are a city that is over 300 years old and the challenges that they had in the beginning of the city were a lot more than we have today. Back then there were no levees or at least there were no manmade levees.   There were only the levees that the Mississippi River naturally built but they were not enough to protect from all flooding. There were hurricanes and there

Hurricane Katrina dealt a pretty savage blow on the city. The winds were very strong and caused a lot of destruction with huge trees blown down, roofs torn off, and even some unstable building collapsing. In the central business district many windows were blown out and took months for those to be replaced.   Because the storm was so huge stretching from it seemed Texas to Alabama many in the people chose to evacuate. Before then people did not leave the