MLK parade on MLK, originally uploaded by anthonyturducken. Every year right about this time I remind people: Please contribute photos taken on MLK Boulevards, Drives, Streets, Avenues, etc., anywhere, to the MLK BLVD Flickr pool, an open-source photojournalism project. Highlights appear on the blog MLK BLVD. The image above, from an MLK parade on MLK [...]
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MLK
Posted in MLK BLVD, New Orleans on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
MLK BLVD: Still going strong
Posted in MLK BLVD on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pleasantly surprised to report that I still get notes from readers of Letters from New Orleans who have only recently discovered the book, and enjoyed it enough to tell me so. One such note came across the transom yesterday, and the writer asked if I had in fact done anything about the idea mentioned [...]
Mr. Marsalis (& King Oliver)
Posted in MLK BLVD, Musical context, Versions on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Marsalis The only way this counts as an interesting picture is if you use Andy Warhol’s definition of a successful photograph: In focus, and of someone famous. Wynton Marsalis, performing here in Savannah as part of a local music festival, spoke at a brief ceremony for the unveiling of a plaque in honor of [...]
hip-hop service
Posted in MLK BLVD on January 23, 2007 |
hip-hop service Originally uploaded by Zervas. … on MLK BLVD in Portland. The latest entries to the Flickr collection, from Zervas….
Speaking of MLK: I posted a kind of miniature higlight reel of MLK BLVD on Murketing.com, right here. The subject of MLK Blvds etc. came up on yesterday’s installment of the African-American roundtable, on News & Notes on NPR. Host Farai Chideya introduced one question by noting that for people her age (I think she’s [...]
blockbuster on mlk
Posted in MLK BLVD on December 12, 2006 |
blockbuster on mlk Originally uploaded by Zervas. Another recent MLK BLVD addition, one of two from Portland. You sort of have to click through to really see how curious this is.
firehouse2.jpg
Posted in MLK BLVD on December 12, 2006 |
firehouse2.jpg Originally uploaded by blitzcat. Several new shots have appeared lately in the MLK BLVD Flickr pool. Here’s a nice one from Greensboro.
10-13-16-mlk-chattanooga-tnn01.jpg Originally uploaded by crfranko. Some great shots from Chattanooga added to the MLK BLVD Flickr pool by our friend crfranko. I love the color on this one, but the whole batch is really good — including the “Pimp Oil” sign. Check em out.
Chicago’s Historic King Drive
Posted in MLK BLVD on August 14, 2006 |
SV102721 Originally uploaded by deltasly101. A recent addition to the MLK BLVD pool: Flickr contributor deltasly101 has an excellent set called Historic King Drive, revealing “some of the greatest architecture in Chicago.” This particular shot that I’ve chosen to post here is not exactly representative, but I happened to love the colors. Anyway his set [...]
Razed Expectations
Posted in Letters From New Orleans book, MLK BLVD, New Orleans, Public Housing on June 15, 2006 |
Calliope (Post-Katrina) I have a really bad feeling about the news that four New Orleans housing projects are now slated for demolition. I don’t have any illusions about the problems of the projects, but when I was researching the long piece in LfNO about the Desire projects, I got pretty familiar with the extremely bad [...]
“St. James Infirmary”
[Or: The Point of this Site]
A couple of years ago I did some research into the song "St. James Infirmary," wrote up what I found, emailed that essay to friends and posted it on my web site (as part of a series of "Letters From New Orleans," as I was living in that city at the time). Based on the feedback, I wrote a second version of the essay, and asked for more feedback. Based on that, I wrote a third version.And now, this site: A place to collect some of the links, leads, thoughts, and suggestions relating to the song that readers (from Finland, The Netherlands, Australia, Spain, England, Sweden, Canada, and all over the U.S.) have sent me. This may lead to a fourth and significantly expanded version of the essay, some day. Also on this site: Plenty of tangents.
Never heard "St. James Infirmary"? Start here.
The Essay
The most recent version of my "St. James Infirmary" essay is now a few years old. But it's still a fairly decent overview of what I know about the song, and why I'm interested in it. You can read it either in the book Letters from New Orleans (see below), or in the archives of The Gambit, the New Orleans weekly that published the piece as a book excerpt when LfNO came out.
The Book
This site is a partial spinoff of the book Letters from New Orleans, published by the unstoppable Garrett County Press. My interest in "St. James Infirmary" is the subject of one essay in the book. All author proceeds from the book still go to post-Katrina relief efforts, so I think it's okay for me to say: You ought to buy it.
Podcast!
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- New Orleans
- Non-musical context
- One song / one album
- Other Music +
- Public Housing
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- Questions (and sometimes answers)
- St. James +
- St. James Infirmary (the building)
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