Monday, August 31, 2009

And it's still true

"...it was 1879 when the newspaper columnist Lafcadio Hearn took note of New Orleans' chronic states of decay, insolvency, lawlessness and prurience, yet still proclaimed: "It is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."

Chris Rose
The Times-Picayune
August 29, 2009

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