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Aug 7, 2018

Mary Ann Barkerding is the co-chair for the second annual Pitot House Life on the Bayou Heritage Fair.

Fairgoers will experience aspects of life as it was 300 years ago in New Orleans’ earliest settlement on the banks of Bayou St. John. As Barkerding notes, It’s important not to just educate school children on the...


Jul 13, 2018

John Magill is a Historian and Curator for The Historic New Orleans Collection. This podcast is John's sixth in a six-part series about New Orleans history. However, our listeners have expressed great interest in the topic. Therefore, we will extend this series of podcasts about the city's fascinating and unique...


Jul 13, 2018

John Magill is Historian and Curator at The Historic New Orleans Collection. This podcast is the fifth in a six-part series of interviews that highlight New Orleans' history. In this podcast, John talks about flooding in New Orleans. As we all know, flooding can be caused either by rainfall or by water overtopping...


Jul 13, 2018

John Magill is Curator and Historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection. This podcast is the fourth in a series of six podcasts that highlight New Orleans' history.
In this podcast, John describes how the New Orleans economy developed and changed in the period between the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War...


Jul 11, 2018

John Magill is Curator and Historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection. This podcast is the third in a six-part series about New Orleans in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this interview, John describes the city's infrastructure in the 1800s and early 1900s, including electricity, streets, drainage, and...