ORLEANS EAST HAD A POPULATION OF ABOUT 125,000 PEOPLE. TWO DECADES LATER, ONLY ABOUT 88,000 PEOPLE LIVE IN THE ONCE BUSTLING NEIGHBORHOOD. WDSU REPORTER SHAY O’CONNOR SPOKE WITH PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT ...
Local historian Derby Gisclair will talk about “Epidemics That Shaped New Orleans” at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. Gisclair says that the city is ...