Posted by West MobileBooth on May 11, 2006, from New Orleans, Louisiana
If you’ve ever wanted to sit peacefully on a park bench in the craziest outfit you own, try it in the French Quarter! It’s hard to stick out in bustling Jackson Square, which is home to performers, musicians, clowns, plam readers, and tourists.
Guitarist Dorise Blackmon and vocalist Michaela Harrison of Mother Tongue warmed up our ears on our first day in New Orleans.
People watching is music to our ears!
Posted by West MobileBooth on May 4, 2006, from New Orleans, Louisiana
How are four facilitators all going to fit in that little airstream?! We’ll figure it out after we clean up the powdered sugar we blew all over each other at world-famous Cafe du Monde. Veteran facilitators Nelson Simon, Veronica Ordaz, Brett Myers, and Laura Spero return to the road for the month of May. With the extra manpower, StoryCorps will be able to stay open longer hours in Jackson Square.
See that spec of silver off in the distance over Brett’s head? That’s the airstream, sitting at the corner of St. Ann and Chartres St.
Cafe Du Monde is known for it’s coffee and beignets. The beignet is not a donut, and it’s not funnel cake, but its kind of like a fried pillow covered in powdered sugar.
Stories from the mouth of the Mississippi
Posted by West MobileBooth on May 3, 2006, from New Orleans, Louisiana
StoryCorps pulls up to Jackson Square, New Orleans, for stories from the mouth of the great Mississippi River. We’ll be here for the month of May, parked outside the Louisiana State Museum.
Posted by West MobileBooth on May 1, 2006, from New Orleans, Louisiana
After three weeks of collecting Texas stories, StoryCorps is preparing to hit the road again. Maybe we can grab that hat before we go.
Posted by West MobileBooth on May 1, 2006, from New Orleans, Louisiana
Seven year old America put her parents, Daniel and Sara, in the hot seat during our last day of Austin interviews.
