redux

the Degas House, featured in posts a few months ago, is listed as closed due to hurricane damage. it's a couple of miles up Esplanade from the quarter, I will see if I can't walk up there on Sunday to see what's become of it. I wasn't particuarly taken with it as opposed to somewhere else, but it would work as a good landmark. I remember the Frenchwoman, Betty, with whom I saw the place, was on her way to Indonesia, I belive it was, to take up a teaching job there. We had lunch afterwards at Cafe Degas (no relation) and we also went to Preservation Hall on Saturday evening, I wonder if Preservation Hall is open, can it be? no, of course not, closed indefinitely, no musicians, they're touring europe--the radio this morning mentioned that NOLA musicians are getting more work than they've ever had in their lives before. well, good on that. and i will see what's left.

this has all happened before. I watched the old Armstrong/Holiday movie New Orleans a month or so ago and there's a particularly moving shot of storyville being closed down, from whence the music goes out into the rest of the world and everybody thrives in Chicago. it's all happened before.

i'm goin' home

i simply cannot stand it, not one minute more, i'm going back to new orleans. Saturday, flying in for two days only this time, found a package, cannot wait for St. Charles to open in a month i'll drive back then, but for now i cannot wait. This weekend I am going home!!