Category Archives: history

New Orleans Gumbo Report

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

On Magazine Street over margaritas and sherry-soaked scallop tacos, a New Orleans friend put it this way: “we are drinking people with a parading problem”. He was talking about his relatively local wheelbarrow parade, but he might have meant the … Continue reading →

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Friday Figures- Don’t Look Back

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Off to a new adventure- four days in New Orleans. On a mission to see tiny courtyard gardens behind wrought iron gates, to wander crowded, noisy streets to the tune of horns, brass band or auto. Looking for the odd … Continue reading →

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Little Skyscraper on the Prairie

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Frank Lloyd Wright was not an overly superstitious architect, for there is a 13th floor in his Price Tower masterpiece. Wright’s only skyscraper was commissioned in the mid-1950s by the H.C. Price Company in Bartlesville. Their corporate headquarters until 1981, … Continue reading →

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