Getting Off at Elysian Fields Obituaries from the New Orleans "Times-Picayune"

Getting Off at Elysian Fields Obituaries from the New Orleans "Times-Picayune"A masterful writer's career spanning selection of the best remembrances from the Big Easy No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and

a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America’s first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor

Illustrated by Mariona Cabassa

BONFOLK donates a pair to nonprofits across the USA

or exercising

This 3x5 ft flag is built to last with dye-sublimated colors that stay vibrant through sun and weather

the Arts & Crafts Club

he was profiled by John Berendt

8 1/4" x 11 1/2"

examines the drummer’s role in the evolution of brass bands

Add some vintage flair to your space with this 12

infested with snakes

But the expanse of the watershed and the rich soils of its floodplain lured European settlers and American pioneers