NOLA Burial & Necropolis 006 - Embedded Marker

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Just, you know, put stuff anywhere!
It's only a sacred marker for someone's mother's final resting place!

NOLA Burial & Necropolis 005 - Almost

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...Almost a Saint.
I don't know if that means "nearly canonized" or "big and or tough enough to be on the local NFL team". They grow 'em pretty big in NOLA. Anyway, you might recognize the last name from the Mamaw Nice Lady post. This is a fun burial spot. Death is often taken lightly way down yonder.

NOLA Burial & Necropolis 004 - Donated Remains

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Every time I look at this marker, I envision random body parts buried randomly about this field- not too deep, maybe wrapped in something flimsy or some old gauze. An arm here or a leg there... pile of guts, maybe...

Then I read this on NOLACemeteries.com:

"Charity Hospital Cemetery was established in 1847. It is is a mass grave for all of the poor of New Orleans. Thousands of patients without money or relatives have been buried in unmarked graves for almost 150 years. Most of the burials were from the Yellow Fever and Malaria epidemics that ravaged the city. The cemetery is never open and has a large iron fence with “No Trespassing” signs and barbed wire. In 1989, a monument was erected by the Tulane and L.S.U. Medical Schools to thank the people who donated their bodies to science. The cemetery is now closed and bodies that would have gone to the cemetery will now be cremated. The reason for the cemetery closure is because dogs got into the cemetery and dug up body parts, hence the chain-link fence and barbed wire."

You can not out-absurd New Orleans, no matter how hard you try.

NOLA Burial & Necropolis 003 - Nice Lady

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My understanding here is that Mamaw...was a nice lady.

And that her great grandchild designed her flower-holder.
Very sweet.

This is in a Cemetery at Canal / City Park. I think it's St. Patrick No. 1, but I'm not sure.

NOLA 2005 Tri-State Shutter Swap 004 - Flood Water Line

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The Live Oaks did just fine, but massive Magnolias, Crepe Myrtles by the score and anything submerged below the waterline for extended periods of time as these shrubs were didn't have a chance. This medical center is on Canal Street near Mid-City, which is the deepest part of the bowl that is New Orleans and thus had the deepest flood waters. The high rim of the bowl is the levee created by the river. It's true: you were safer from the flood if you were near water, either the lake to the North or river to the South. The World Trade Center is on Canal, but on the river, so it remained high and dry.

NOLA Architecture 007 - World Trade Center

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Bet you didn't know New Orleans has a World Trade Center.
They do and it has a website.

The Plimsoll Club is the restaurant at the top, similar to Windows on the World.
I don't know if the Plimsoll Club rotates or not.

The WTC sits on the Mississippi at the end (or beginning if you prefer) of Canal Street, which separates the French Quarter from the Central Business District.