Anachronistic Tendencies, Vol. 1: New Orleans

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It’s where Jim Morrison played his last concert with The Doors. It’s where Aaron Burr went to remake himself after shooting Alexander Hamilton. It’s been on the front lines of the battle for civil rights since its founding, and it’s where artists of all stripes have birthed entirely new genres of work.

It’s New Orleans, and there’s no place else like it.

Learn these and other little-known tales of the Crescent City in Anachronistic Tendencies, Vol. 1: New Orleans. It’s not quite a history book or a travel guide but a little of both. We love famous dead people and very old places, and we want to tell you the things you wish you knew about the people and places you love.

Anachronistic Tendencies, Vol. 1: New Orleans
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
STORIES IN VOL. 1: NEW ORLEANS

  1. Born in New Orleans: Music, Modern American Literature, and Fancy Groceries
    1. Louis Armstrong’s New Year’s Eve Arrest and Other Childhood Tales (In which young Louis gets into a pinch but gets a life-long music career out of it.)
    2. Double Dealing with Sherwood Anderson: The French Quarter Renaissance (In which a barefoot Ohio man finds his way to New Orleans and changes American literature.)
    3. The Rockin’est Laundromat in America (Cosimo Matassa, a 1950s appliance salesman, learns that records sell better and decides to make a few of his own.)
    4. Meet Me at the Dew Drop Inn (Get a haircut, catch a drag show, and jam with the founding fathers of Rock ‘n Roll. Guest starring Little Richard.)
    5. Did Whole Foods Start in New Orleans? (Spoiler: Kind of…)
  2. 1960s: Scandal, Conspiracy, Creativity, and Change
    1. Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans (Lonely local man tries to make friends. Fails.)
    2. Charles Bukowski, The Outsider, and Loujon Press (The Beats invade New Orleans.)
    3. A First Grader, Federal Marshals, and Separate but (In)Equal in New Orleans (From Homer Plessy to Ruby Bridges.)
  3. 1970s: The Aftermath
    1. Is Gram Parsons Buried in New Orleans? (But didn’t his friends cremate him in Joshua Tree?)
    2. A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas (The night that inspired the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’,” and Jim Morrison’s last concert with The Doors.)
  4. Founding Fathers in New Orleans
    1. Aaron Burr’s Empire (In which Aaron Burr tried to take over Mexico. Maybe.)
    2. Is Benjamin Latrobe Really Buried under the Superdome? (An architect of the U.S. Capitol Building comes to New Orleans to make his fortune. It doesn’t end well.)
  5. French City, French Connections
    1. Degas (and De Gas) in New Orleans (A failure at age 40, Edgar Degas comes to New Orleans to paint.)
    2. See the Eiffel Tower… in New Orleans! (Well… part of it!)
  6. The Boats that Won World War II (and One that Tried to Sink It)
    1. The Bayou Boats that Made D-Day (Louisiana swamp boats save the day in Normandy.)
    2. Nazis in the Gulf of Mexico (No, really!)

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