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This is the song that doesn’t end, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue singing it forever just because… Just like the song the story of this sidewalk is one that does not know how to stop. Here is an example […]

Over the last 2 years I have run into the work of Arthur Raymond Smith. The first time I saw it I recognized the painting on the house as belonging to a pattern of expression one finds in “naive” artists. I was reminded of the work of “Don Eduardo”:http://www.mexconnect.com/en/articles/1169-visions-of-san-miguel-the-heartland-of-mexico, an artist who lives in San […]

The last few years have been especially difficult for our elderly population. My mother in law took a fall right near City Hall while trying to make sense of some City Hall snafu. Her fall resulted in a smashed to smithereens elbow which led to surgery and ongoing rehabilitation. Bouncing back at 83 is no […]

There has been a movement to “Save the San Luis”:http://www.beltstl.com/2009/04/this-was-the-future/ Some of the events have been organized by a New Orleans Blogger who writes about Preservation in his home town of St Louis at “Dotage”:http://stldotage.blogspot.com/ Matthew has an interesting thesis in the works where he discusses new media and preservation. The story of the San […]

“Miss Ellen’s”:http://raymondpward.typepad.com/rainman2/2007/03/miss_ellens_pai.html house after “she was gone”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/05/ellen-montgomery/ I went by the other day and wondered if my quest to remember what had been was now a curse because while others may ride by and see a vacant lot I see the outline of a house. A house with quite a story, and as I stopped […]

“Michelle Kimball”:http://blog.prcno.org/ at the PRC has compiled the photos for next weeks NCDC meeting. To view them go “here”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/sets/72157616492066424/

I saw Dr. John a few weeks ago at a community meeting about the reopening of Charity. Not my best photo but there he was sitting quietly in a pew listening to the speakers. Today this ad was released. Looks like there is more than one Doctor that would like to see Charity open.

This is one of the properties on the agenda. To “view the full agenda”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/april-6-agenda/

3 “creole cottages”:http://bywater.org/Arch/Creole.htm sit on the corner of “Iberville and N.Galvez”:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2100+Iberville+New+Orleans&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.176059,80.947266&ie=UTF8&ll=29.961906,-90.080788&spn=0.009128,0.019763&z=16&iwloc=addr remarkably close to the proposed LSU/VA site. A year or so ago there were 4 early one morning I received a call from a neighbor reporting the demolition illegally executed without the proper permits. And at various times over the past year the owner […]