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BAILEY'S TAKE
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From the Anchor Desk
Sunday, May 25, 2008
By Brian Bailey |
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A spare day in the Big
Easy
By
Brian Bailey
©2008 Bonesville.net
All rights reserved.
NEW ORLEANS — With the
East Carolina Pirates
out of the Conference
USA tournament, I had
Saturday to see the city
of New Orleans.
I think everyone should
see Bourbon Street once.
That should do it for
most of us.
I turned down the
“Voodoo Tour”, the
“Ghost Tour” and the
“Swamp Tour” in favor of
the “City/Cemetery Tour”
through New Orleans.
The three-hour venture
featured all the history
of the French Quarter.
The many different
styles of architecture
were amazing. The
mansions were stunning.
Most of those places
weren’t affected all
that much by Hurricane
Katrina.
Katrina devastation,
though, was a major part
of the tour. The levees
that broke and the many
empty houses and lots
told the story. Most of
New Orleans has cleaned
up, but some of the
people that left will
certainly never return.
The best part of the
tour was walking through
the cemeteries. They
call it the “City of the
Dead.”
We toured St. Louis
Cemetery #3. It’s not as
famous, or so our tour
guide said, as St. Louis
Cemetery #1, where
legendary Voodoo Queen
Marie Laveau is buried.
I’ll certainly take his
word for it.
One of the other
cemeteries we visited
was the site where part
of the movie "Double
Jeopardy" was shot. That
movie starred Tommy Lee
Jones and Ashley Judd.
It’s one of my all-time
favorites. In the movie
Judd almost spends her
last time on earth in
one of the tombs.
We also went through the
Mannings' neighborhood.
Super Bowl champion
quarterbacks Peyton and
Eli were raised right
there in New Orleans
when Dad Archie was with
the Saints.
I am amazed at the many
different restaurants,
cafes and general
hole-in-the-wall places
there are in downtown
New Orleans.
It’s been fun but, with
the Pirates out of the
tournament, it’s
certainly time to get
home.
Every time I go away it
makes me appreciate
eastern North Carolina,
Greenville and East
Carolina that much more.
BB
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