Historic Hotel

The Woman Who Changed Her Men For Cats

Nov 17

Rip Van Delaney

Mar 14

Greek Gods, Ghost Towns, and a Coke Bottle Sky: Crossing America in Four Too-Swift Days

Feb 4

building the invisible structure

Jan 11

Time-Traveling Valentines

Jan 8

Go on singing.

Dec 11, 2022

Three nuns

Mar 2, 2022

Creativity is a defiant act.

Feb 27, 2022

Raskolnikov's Dream

Nov 9, 2020

New Orleans: Halloween & Voodoo at the Angel-Xiques Mansion

Oct 31, 2020

Louisville: Ghosts of the Old Seelbach

Oct 24, 2020

Mothers, Don't Let your Daughters Grow into Miniaturists

Oct 19, 2020

Edna Ferber's Show Boat

Jul 29, 2020

Travels with Bandit

Jul 17, 2020

A Word

May 24, 2019

From the desk of Mina Bird

Jun 1, 2017

All Dolled Up Introduction: "The Magic in Old Clothes"

Feb 15, 2017

New Orleans: Olivier House

Apr 14, 2014

On the Subject of Ghosts

Mar 8, 2014

New Orleans: Saint Roch Chapel

Feb 15, 2014

New Orleans: "Jazz Funeral"

Jan 1, 2014

Greek Gods, Ghost Towns, and a Coke Bottle Sky: Crossing America in Four Too-Swift Days

L. Delaney

Feb 4
7 min

Greek Gods, Ghost Towns, and a Coke Bottle Sky: Crossing America in Four Too-Swift Days

Several times a year, I drive between New Orleans and Michigan, accompanied by a pair of cats, a trunkful of art supplies, and---if I'm...

New Orleans: Halloween & Voodoo at the Angel-Xiques Mansion

L. Delaney

Oct 31, 2020
7 min

New Orleans: Halloween & Voodoo at the Angel-Xiques Mansion

My first home in New Orleans was the Olivier House, a 19th-century French Quarter mansion-turned hotel, whose 40+ rooms each deserve a...

L. Delaney

Oct 24, 2020
7 min

Louisville: Ghosts of the Old Seelbach

“Stranger would you solve the mysteries of our city? Go then to 4th Avenue, for there beats the pulse. You’ll come away baffled, but...

L. Delaney

Apr 14, 2014
1 min

New Orleans: Olivier House

In the French Quarter of New Orleans, there stands a grand old house. It defies the natural course of ruin by growing outward rather than...