New Orleans elegance is a vestige of a superficially halcyon time when the town was awash in money, artistically aware, and internationally prominent.
New Orleans where a stroll feeds the senses~the intense aromas of gumbo or hot beignets drifting from French Quarter cafes, staccato tap dancing in the street, the endless trove of goods at the French Market, the glittering Mississippi seen from atop the levee. And the music- one is borne through the day on music, from jazz clubs on Bourbon Street to a Cajun two-step at the Liberty theatre in Eunice; from accordion- driven zydeco to street corner blues.
How did such an endlessly fascinating place come to be?
