New Orleans Nostalgia

      Ned Hemard's Weekly Column Remembering New Orleans History, Culture and Traditions

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•   400 Rabbits, a Pig and a Whistle
•   1825-1826
•   A Big Hop Over the Ditch
•   A Bon-Temps Thanksgiving
•   A Confederacy of Bunches
•   A Dollop of Trollope
•   A Lorelei Named Alice
•   A Moveable Feast It's Not
•   A Most Memorable Year
•   A Perfect Hubbub and Jubilee
•   A Puff Piece
•   A Slice of Old Metairie
•   A Tour of Tullynally
•   All Because of an Indian Diamond
•   Alois & Aloysius
•   As Fate Would Have It  
•   Baby It's Cold Outside
•   Baronne & Carondelet
•   Battle in the Bywater
•   Beards in the Breeze
•   Before A.C.
•   Big Apple and Big Easy
•   Bingle Baby
•   Bonanza in the Big Easy
•   Bon Ton and Bon Temps
•   Burnt Offerings
•   Campeachy
•   Chalmette
•   Champagne Charlie
•   "Chancellor Livingston, I Presume" 
•   Changing Course
•   Chantilly Lace, But No Pretty Face
•   Cheap Thrills  
•   Chili Today, Hot Tamale 
•   Chinaballs
•   Christmas in the 50s                                  
•   Civil Suits: A Sucker Born Every Minute
•   Coffee With Chicory
•   Colbert Article
•   Court of Appeal
•   Creole Mustard
•   Dear Dorothy
•   De La Louisiane
•   Delectable Daube
•   Dingbats of New Orleans
•   Dixie Doodles
•   Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor
•   Don't Paraphrase Me, Braud!
•   Drive-Ins Did It
•   Duel of Law
•   Easter Joy
•   Egyptian Visitors
•   Every Memory Lingers
•   Fashionable Finger Food
•   Fateful Forecasts
•   Favorite Things 2010
•   Feisty Femmes
•   Felicity's Still a Saint
•   First Draft
•   Food of the Gods: Ambrosia and Nectar Soda
•   Football in New Orleans New Year's Day, 1890
•   Forgotten Texas Hero
•   Former Occupations
•   French Foreign Lesion
•   From Humble Beginnings
•   From Oyster Bay to Oysters Rockefeller
•   From the Highlands to the Lowlands
•   Gallatin Street
•   Games of Chance
•   Gardenias, Magnolias and Oleanders
•   Generals on Horseback
•   Goober Peas
•   Good to the Last Drip
•   Green Ribbon Backordered
•   Happy Folly
•   Harahan History
•   He Didn't Forget the Ladies
•   He Learned from a Lighthouse Builder
•   He Worked for Peanuts
•   Heirs Apparent
•   Hello Central, Give Me Hemlock
•   Hidden Desire
•   History of Fort Macomb
•   Hot Air
•   Hot and Cool
•   Hunger After Battle
•   Ice and Mosquitoes
•   I'd Rather be Right
•   If, New Orleans Style
•   I'm Not Lisa
•   Is New Orleans Feminine
•   It was Fascination
•   It's Fall Y'all
•   Jambalaya on the Bayou
•   Joe and Rose Kennedy at the Ball
•   Julie and Julia
•   Just for a Thrill
•   Just So Story
•   La Belle Creole
•   La Fete de la Chandeleur
•   Land of 1000 Dances
•   Lapsing Lexicon
•   Lenten Observances
•   Let the Four Winds Blow
•   Let Them Eat Brioche
•   Life's No Fête Champêtre
•   Like Red Beans on Rice
•   Lincoln and a Louisiana Lemon
•   Lost and Found
•   Louis Paulhan, King of the Air
•   Lusher Lore
•   Lustrous Leap Year
•   Magic Moments
•   Market Commentary
•   Marshals in Our Midsts

•   The Mayors of New Orleans

•   Medical Charges
•   Meet Me in St. Louis, Louisiana
•   Milk with a Punch
•   Mint Condition
•   Monica Monica and more Monica
•   Mormon Memories
•   Mouse Practice and Mirlitons
•   Mousquetaires and Mouseketeers
•   Mules, Tigers, Waffles and Taffy
•   My Daughter, the Doctor
•   My Favorite New Orleans Things
•   My Spy Boy
•   New Orleans 1956
•   New Orleans in 1810
•   New Orleans in 1867
•   New Orleans Night Before Christmas
•   New Orleans Piano
•   New Orleans Rites of Spring
•   New Orleans' Title to Albania
•   New Orleans, "You're The Top!"
•   New Suits and Clothing Customs
•   Noble Drummer
•   Obituary Cocktail Lounge ... and So Much More
•   Ode to Oktoberfest
•   Ojen Update
•   Once Important Factors
•   Oysters d'Orleans
•   Paris Fashions
•   Passing Through New Orleans
•   Patois and Petticoats
•   Pelican Briefly
•   Pirated Ideas
•   Platonic Memories
•   Poetic License
•   Pretty Women
•   Prince of the Two Sicilies
•   Profiles in Clay
•   Propriety of the Past
•   Proud Pilothouses
•   Provincialism
•   Quite a Flap
•   Quotable New Orleans
•   Quotable New Orleans, Part 2
•   Reinvigorated
•   Réveillon Dinners
•   Rocket Town
•   Romance of the Milky Way
•   Roosevelt Returns
•   Rosecliff
•   Royal Antiquities
•   Saint Louis and the Red Mass
•   Saintly Symbol
•   Saucy and Headstrong
•   Shaken, not Stirred
•   She Had a Gimmick
•   Sounds of Summer, New Orleans Style
•   St. Claude and Dumaine
•   Sweet New Orleans Delights
•   Sweetheart of New Orleans
•   Taft Visits New Orleans
•   Terry and Carol Sue
•   Thanks for the Memory
•   The Beatles Visit New Orleans and A Nightingale Sang in Jackson Square 
•   The Cup, the Cap and the Cupola
•   The Floating Palace
•   The New Orleans Jump
•   The Obelisk with the Odd Insciption
•   The Railroad Baron Who Actually Was One
•   The Scent of a New Orleans Woman
•   The Stores With "K" Have Gone Away
•   The Sweet Bell Gal
•   Three Municipalities
•   Throw Me Somethin'
•   Ties That Bind
•   Tontis, Cadillacs and Chevrolets
•   Too Marva-lous For Words
•   Trouble, Right Here in the River City
•   True Bohemian Rhapsody
•   Turning on Dufossat
•   Twelfth Night
•   Universal Acclaim
•   Valentine Delivery
•   Well-heeled City
•   What's in a Name
•   When Blue Turns to Red
•   When to Wear White
•   Withering Heights
•   Yazoo, No. Swanee, Yes. Bananas and How!
•   You Had to Ax
•   Zorro Rides Again