Ghost Hangs Four in New Orleans January 22, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Here is an American story (of who knows what veracity) that got sucked across the Atlantic and into the British newspapers: WDP, 22 Nov 1872, 3. Few positions in life can be imagined more disagreeable than that of being imprisoned in a haunted cell in police station. The New Orleans Times tells a most unpleasant […]
The First New Orleans Mardi Gras: Bears and Transvestites February 24, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
The relevant Wikipedia page dates the first recorded Mardi Gras to 1835. However, there was certainly a small Mardi Gras held a long century before. Indeed, possibly our earliest Mardi Gras description from the city was written out in 1730. In that year a Company of the Indies official Marc-Antoine Caillot, who had been in […]
Condoned Torture and Revenge in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans January 22, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
***Warning this post has some very unpleasant material: if you are having a bad day, do yourself a favour and just click away…*** ‘The west’, that monolith to which most readers of this blog belong, has gradually over the centuries, shied away from torture. But there are moments in history when societies return on themselves […]
