Wednesday, April 13, 2016

New Orleans Travel Journal

We returned home this weekend from a wonderful week in New Orleans. Here's a few pages from my travel journal. With not much time to sketch, many pages are a montage of ephemera and photos. Trip highlights include- great friends, Whitney Plantation, The House of Blues Gospel Brunch, Chris Roberts-Aniteau Galleries, street musician jazz, Preservation Hall, architecture and food.

This NY Times article by David Amsden explains the Whitney Plantation history of slavery and the experience of confronting the issues of racism and slavery in our country today -  
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magazine/building-the-first-slave-museum-in-america.html?_r=1