fuzzis
12-14-2007, 05:29 PM
36 Hours in New Orleans (http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16hours.html)
WHAT other city, after being half-drowned and left to starve, foiled by bureaucracy and attacked by the auto-immune disease of rampant crime, could stagger to its feet to welcome visitors with a platter of oysters on the half shell and a rousing brass band? What place, barely two years after Hurricane Katrina, could provide streetcar rides and impromptu parades, riverboat calliopes and sidewalk tap dancers? When chroniclers look back, the city's ability to be itself — a place that embraces sorrow and joy with equal gusto — in this hardest of times will become part of its legend....
It makes my heart happy to see a "good" article about New Orleans. :smt050
WHAT other city, after being half-drowned and left to starve, foiled by bureaucracy and attacked by the auto-immune disease of rampant crime, could stagger to its feet to welcome visitors with a platter of oysters on the half shell and a rousing brass band? What place, barely two years after Hurricane Katrina, could provide streetcar rides and impromptu parades, riverboat calliopes and sidewalk tap dancers? When chroniclers look back, the city's ability to be itself — a place that embraces sorrow and joy with equal gusto — in this hardest of times will become part of its legend....
It makes my heart happy to see a "good" article about New Orleans. :smt050