Visitor Questions

The Pelicans Basketball Team: Are they Good?

  Well, that depends on who you talk to. There were doing terribly at the start of the 2022 season, then with a change in coach and some players they were able to pull out some great wins and were in the running for the playoffs.   Zion Williamson was out for the entire season with an injury to his foot and he stayed most of his time in California recuperating. He is considered a star player. But even without him

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Are New Orleans Cemeteries Open?

Yes, they are always open. There are many cemeteries within the city of New Orleans that have very interesting histories and some with some famous people who have been interred there.   At the St. Louis cemetery Nicholas Cage has a pyramid like spot where he expects to be placed when he goes on to his big reward. The famous voodoo queen Marie Laveau has a tomb where people still come and make offerings and make wishes hoping that she will

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New Orleans Beaches: Are they Nice?

The only time you will be able to see any kind of beach in the city itself is when the Mississippi River gets really low then you can see a beach.   There is a beach out at the lakefront of Lake Pontchartrain. This is an undeveloped area and used to be part of the amusement park Pontchartrain Beach which was demolished in the 1980’s.   There are some nice beaches about an hour away on the Mississippi Gulf Coast where

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