#bayou st. john

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Bayou St. John

New Orleans

[infrogmation]

Horses and carriage beside Bayou St. John, Mid-City New Orleans.

Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans, 2007.

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Scenes from home, past and present.

[kornwulf]

If you know me, you know one of my favorite things is low stakes historical mysteries. The one I'm currently enamoured with is this thing

It's referred to as the Bayou St. John Submarine. We know it was found by a dredge deepening Bayou St. John outside of New Orleans in 1878, and then dragged out of the water... And that's pretty much it. For about a century it was thought to be a different submarine named the Pioneer, which was a prototype for the infamous, ill fated Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.

However, it's features do not square in the slightest with the surviving documentation we have on the Pioneer, which, when combined with period newspaper reports that the Pioneer was scrapped in 1868, means it's now widely held that it's an *entirely different* Confederate submarine *also* built in New Orleans during the civil war, which as far as anyone can find doesn't appear in the historical record anywhere prior to its (re?)discovery in 1878.

So what we're left with is an intriguing shipwreck, with absolutely no knowledge as to how, when, and why it was built, or by whom.

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

My love for New Orleans, LA homes comes from their uniqueness to just one place. You can't really find houses like this anywhere else. Here's one that was built in 2016 in the style of an old historic "Double Gallery" residence. It has 3bds, 3ba, and is listed for $1.675M.

They did the classic entrance hall with a fancy spindle railing. Remember, it's only 8 yrs. old, so it's not a reno.

They copied a sitting room and even included pocket doors.

High ceilings, wide crown molding, built-in book shelves, and pocket doors to the dining room.

Dining room has a tray ceiling and I like that they put medallions up for the chandeliers.

Cute shower room. Love the pedestal sink, mirror and little chandie.

Coffered ceiling in the everyday dining room. Very nice.

The kitchen is lovely. Sliding barn door, a counter that seats 4, Shaker cabinets, and I like the lighting. They've got a pot filler faucet. I wish they'd chosen a backsplash with some contrast. Love the bookshelf for cookbooks.

Check out the butler's pantry.

A potting area? Wow, that's a wonderful bonus.

This is beautiful. A family room with an interesting take on a coffered ceiling, and 3 double doors to the garden. Also, love the fireplace.

Isn't it fabulous to be able to walk out to these porches from the family room?

Upstairs the thick crown molding continues.

Flex space outer room is open to the primary bedroom.

Bright spacious room.

Has French doors to the terrace and an en-suite.

This is new home that looks like a renovated historic home.

Large en-suite.

And, how convenient to have a walk-in closet/dressing room right off the bath.

Secondary bedroom also has a beautiful en-suite.

The 3rd spacious bedroom is used as a home office. It also has an en-suite.

The view from the terraces is the Bayou St. John.

There's a patio down in the garden.

How lovely to be on a bayou.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1148-Moss-St-New-Orleans-LA-70119/157738071_zpid/

[3rdeyeblaque]

On September 10th we venerate Elevated Ancestor, Voodoo Queen of Louisiana, & Saint, Marie Catherine Laveau on her 222nd birthday 🎉

[for our Hoodoos of the Vodou Pantheon]

Marie Catherine Laveau was a dedicated Hoodoo, healer, herbalist, & midwife who, "traveled the streets [of New Orleans] like she owned them", as the most infamous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Marie C. Laveau I was born a "Free Mulatto" in today's French Quarter in what was then, New France); to a mother & grandmother who were both born into slavery & later freed via freedom papers. It is believed that she grew up in the St. Ann Street cottage of her maternal grandmother.

She married Jacques Santiago-Paris, a "Quadroon" "Free Man of Color", who fled as a refugee from Saint-Domingue, Haiti from the Haitian Revolution in the former French colony . After his passing, she became known as "The Widow Paris". She then worked as a hairdresser catering to White families & later entered a domestic partnership with a French nobleman his death. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by instilling fear in their servants whom she either paid or cured of mysterious ailments. Although she never abandoned her Catholic roots, she became increasingly interested in her mother’s African traditional beliefs. The Widow Paris learned her craft from a ‘Voodoo doctor’ known variously as Doctor John or John Bayou.

Marie C. Laveau I is said to have intiated into Voodoo career sometime in the 1820s. She's believed to be descended from a long line of Voodoo Priestesses, all bearing her same name. She was also a lifelong devout Catholic. It didn’t take long before Marie C. Laveau I dominated New Orleans Voodoo culture & society before claiming title of Queen. She was the 3rd Voodoo Queen of NOLA - after Queen Sanité Dédé & Queen Marie Salopé. During her decades tenure, she was the premier beacon of hope and service to customers seeking private consultations - to aid in matters such as family disputes, health, finances, etc, created/sold gris gris, perforemed exorcisms. While her daughter Marie II was known for her more theatrical displays of public events, Marie C. Laveau I was less flamboyant in her persona. She conducted her work in 3 primary locations throughout the city: her home on St. Ann Street, Congo Square, & at Lake Pontchartrain. Despite one account of a challenge to her authority in 1850, Marie C. Laveau I maintained her leadership & influence.

The Queen died peacefully in her sleep in her ole cottage home on St. Ann Street. Her funeral was conducted according to the rite of the Catholic Church & in the absence of any Voodoo rites. To her Voodoo followers, she's venerated as a Folk Saint. In² addition to her Priesthood in Voodoo and title of Queen, she is also remembered for her community activism; visiting prisoners, providing lessons to women of the community, & doing ritual work for those in need.

She is generally believed to have been buried in plot 347, the Glapion family crypt in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans. As of March 1st, 2015, there is no longer public access to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Entry with a tour guide is required due to continued vandalism & tomb raiding.

We pour libations & give her💐 today as we celebrate her for her love for & service to the people, through poverty, misfortune, bondage, & beyond.

Offering suggestions: flowers + libations at her grave, catholic hymns, holy water, gold rings/bracelets, money

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

[thevampiresofneworleans]

The ruins of Lindy Boggs Medical Center (formerly Old Mercy Hospital) at night, March 2025.

The hospital was in operation from the 1920s to 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded the lower floors and knocked out the generators, which were located in the basement. While details of the story are often conflated with oral history surrounding similar events which occurred uptown at Oschner Baptist Hospital, possibly as many as 45 patients at Lindy Boggs lost their lives due to heat, thirst, and a lack of critical medical services. The survivors were fortunately rescued by airlift, except for one man who stayed behind to look after the neighborhood pets who had taken refuge on the dry upper levels.

The hospital was abandoned soon after and is today a conspicuous ruin towering over Bayou St. John and the Mid-City neighborhood. A popular destination for urbex explorers and graffiti artists, the floors and walls of the basement and sub-basement are still damp with moisture from the storm twenty years ago.

[gerard-lange-art-journals]

Wilco and the Bayou St. John Bridge. Why? I really do not remember.

Gerard Lange art journals, Book 12: Watching You Watching Me, spread 16 (pp. 32–33), 2007–2008, 28 x 44 x 3 cm (11 x 17 x 1 ⅛ in.).

[chasedeys]

Firstly your fics are INCREDIBLE I absolutely adore them <333 if you ever wanted to expand on Joe’marr vacationing/visiting NOLA together I’d love to read!! Maybe ja’marr’s family makes an appearance?? I love reading how others react to the ship in fics and what their dynamics are :))

hi!! thank you so much!!!!!!! i too love to read outside povs to a ship lolllll. prefacing this with i will try to write an actual fic/drabble of this!!! i will attempt it i swear!!!!! but please don't hold your breath 😭 in the meantime take this uncensored babble:

god id loveeee to write them cruising around nola so baddd. but like horrifically unsure abt actually writing this for real bc the research id have to do…….like i dont have the slightest clue what new orleans is like and i want to write the neighborhood and city yk?? 😭 and writing about their family gives me anxiety literally double triple overthinking everything like it matters that much like it's rpfiction i could technically just make shit up but 😭

BUT ANYWAY like i mentioned in this one paragraph –

They’ve spent what felt like hours just rutting inside the other once, during an off day—no media, no interviews, no meetings, no football—just the two of them locked in their tiny hidden rental somewhere in Bayou St. John with no expectations other than just being with each other. Joe’s nipples were so puffy. Ja’Marr’s throat hoarse from screaming. He misses the little private bubble of just two of them with such sudden intensity before it gets drowned out by their current act: still together, still in love.

in love with the idea of them having this tiny place in a quiet neighborhood in nola where nobody knows them (unlikely, i know, especially in nola of all places lmao) or just 1 or 2 neighbors who clock them and are fiercely protective of them!! it won't be the place for them to settle ofc joe loves ohio too much, ja'marr loves his friends too much social butterfly Needs to be surrounded with the guys he loves etc but this quiet nook for them to settle when it gets too much and they want to get away sometimes is Very Important to me okay. a little place somewhat near ja'marrs family home so he can recharge with them too!! the family home being a space where joes own family cherishes!!!!!

Driving out visiting ja’marrs old house when they can to do large family cookouts or just plain random dinners, annoying the family dog. Living alone trying and attempting to cook together bc both of them are class A disasters at it, slowly learning together making these breakfast omelets and cajun fried rice, finally not just eating unseasoned scrambled eggs and sad little protein shakes for breakfast, late night doordash or midnight meal runs to the weirdly open 24/7 chinese place idk. Morning runs to the nearest park and pushing each other on a rickety swing and joe falling over laughing bc ja’marr just slid on a muddy puddle and is now drenched in brown dirt only to skedaddle away because the mans sprinting at him stay the fuck away etc etc.

Just!! the large family cookouts?? both unable to cook for shit somehow getting roped to checking the seafood boil just standing🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️ dead quiet staring down at the closed pot like they're actually doing something while behind them ja'marrs mom stares at them incredulously and throws her hands up in exasperation, playing backyard football with the little nephews and nieces, joe’s own family arriving and meshing in with the chases, joes older brothers needling at jamarr for one thing or the other, getting to sit tangled up in one armchair together during movie night sessions, jamarrs sister throwing peanuts in their direction when they're being too grossly in love, jamarr losing a bet to his sister so he has to hang the laundry up in the morning but he drags joe to help him with it bc he's a dick and says random wedding vows for some reason and that gets joe moving for some reason, little football strategy sessions with the jimmys and all the other siblings and aunts and uncles turning into a mini food fight because they just won't get to a consensus because everybody in this mesh of family is so fucking stubborn etc etc. when jamarrs parent said something about how jamarr was a very hyperactive (?) child and they tried pushing him to football to tire him out only for him to get even more bouncy etc and smiling at each other when they clock jamarr settling down easy when joe has a hand on his shoulder to catch his attention for a convo aaaaaaa you get my vision????

And it pains me that joemarr don't do halloween bc i thought nola was all abt that afhjaskfsjj like girl what about the parades……..WHAT was the horrific scarring halloween experience?? but anyway imagining them dressing up over the top as to hide their identity taking the little nieces and nephews on a candy hunt, trying out a haunted maze booth thing and promptly latching on each others hand shaking bc the fuck is that hyperrealistic dead body doing there but joe stops to observe it closely in a dads-watching-construction-esque way while ja'marr gapes at him incredulously the worker in charge of that section has to peek out to awkwardly tell them to keep it moving sigh anyways this is all i can give you rn hehe

bye <3

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A Flamboyance of Flamingoes, by John Rigney.

Bayou St. John, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Bayou St. John

New Orleans

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—Mingi's place (Gentilly by Bayou St-John)

This is there first game night together in-person and it's been amazing! Mingi had never thought it get to meet either in person, but here they were all together on Mingi's couch; eating food while playing Mario Party. This is how life should be, happy; filled with laughter and beautiful connections. It must be fate that they all found their way to this place over the last few years.

They shove food in their mouth, munching happily as they look at the other two. Moments like this makes every pain in the world worth it. "Ready for another round?" They say after swallowing their last bite.

@frgdsecrts

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Holidays 2.15

Holidays

Angelman Syndrome Day

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3rd Saturday in February

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Community Pubs Week begins (UK) [3rd Saturday through 4th Saturday]

International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also May, Aug & Nov)

National Black Movie Day [3rd Saturday]

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World Pangolin Day [3rd Saturday]

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Weekly Holidays beginning February 15 (2nd Week of February)

Hardee County Fair (Wauchula, Florida) [thru 2.22]

National FFA Week (thru 2.22) [Saturday to Saturday containing 2.22]

National Write Your Book in a Weekend Weekend

Omaha Beer Week (Omaha, Nebraska) [thru 2.23]

Real Bread Week (thru 2.23) [2nd to Last Saturday to Saturday]

Festivals On or Beginning February 15, 2025

Asian American Expo (La Verne, California) [thru 2.16]

Arizona Strong Beer Festival (Phoenix, Arizona)

Bay Area Renaissance Festival (Tampa, Florida) thru 3.30]

Bayou King Cake Festival (Thibodaux, Louisiana)

Carnival of Acireale (Acireale, Sicily, Italy) [thru 3.4]

Cedarburg Winter Festival (Cedarburg, Wisconsin) [thru 2.16]

Chinese New Year’s Parade (San Francisco, California)

Color the Wind Kite Festival (Clear Lake, Iowa)

Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival (Cortez, Florida) [thru 2.16]

Florida Keys Seafood Festival (Key West, Florida)) [thru 2.16]

International White Wine Festival in Anderson Valley (Boonville, California) [thru 2.16]

Jupiter Seafood Festival (Jupiter, Florida) [thru 2.16]

Melodifestivalen (Västeras, Sweden)

Menton Lemon Festival (Menton, France) [thru 3.2]

Nice Carnival (Nice, France) [thru 3.2]

NYS Ice Wine & Culinary Festival (Fairport, New York)

Palm Beach Marine Flea Market and Seafood Festival (West Palm Beach, Florida) [thru 2.16]

Takeuchi Festival (Rokugo, Japan)

Writers Guild Awards (Los Angeles, California)

3rd Thursday in February

Energy Saving Day (Italy) [3rd Thursday]

Global Information Governance Day [3rd Thursday]

National Conductive Education Day [3rd Thursday]

Switch Off Thursday (UK) [Thursday of Go Green Week]

Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]

World Anthropology Day [3rd Thursday]

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Weekly Holidays beginning February 15

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National Write Your Book in a Weekend Weekends [thru 2.18] (also in Apr, Sep & Nov)

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Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because so many reasons carrying on from the night before.)

Premieres

Alice’s Mysterious Mystery (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Alice Solves the Puzzle (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Alice’s Orphan (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Angel and the Badman (Film; 1947)

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (Animated Film; 2019)

Autumn (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1930)

The Bears and the Bees (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1932)

The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss II (Waltz; 1867)

The Breakfast Club (Film; 1985)

Blue Moon, recorded by The Marcels (Song; 1961)

Broad City (TV Series; 2010)

Bugs Bunny’s Wild World of Sports (WB Animated TV Special; 1989)

Burn, by Deep Purple (Album; 1974)

Burr Gore, by Vidal (Historical Novel; 1973)

Cinderella (Animated Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Clifford the Big Red Dog, by Norman Bridwell (Children’s Book; 1963)

Corregidora, by Gayl Jones (Novel; 1975)

Cowboy Blues (Aesop’s Sound Fable Cartoon; 1931)

The Crackpot Quail (WB MM Cartoon; 1941)

The Crystal Maze (UK TV game Show; 1990)

The Deep Boo Sea (Caspar Cartoon; 1952)

Doom Patrol (TV Series; 2019)

Eastbound & Down (TV Series; 2009)

Eight Days a Week, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

Elegy Written in. A Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray (Poem; 1751)

11.23.63 (TV Series; 2016)

Escape from Planet Earth (Animated Film; 2013)

Felix Crosses the Crooks (Felix the Cat Cartoon; 1927)

Felix the Cat Rests in Peace (Felix the Cat Cartoon; 1926)

Fly by Night, by Rush (Album; 1975)

Flying Yeast (Krazy Kat Cartoon; 1929)

Fun, Fun, Fun, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1964)

The Gay Anties (WB MM Cartoon; 1947)

Get Happy!!, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1980)

Glad All Over, by the Dave Clark Five (Song; 1964)

The Haunted Mouse (WB MM Cartoon; 1941)

The Heritage (Hearst-Pathe News Cartoon; 1918)

A Horse’s Tale (Sugarfoott Walter Lantz Cartoon; 1954)

Lifehouse, by The Who (Rock Opera; 1971)

Marlowe (Film; 2023)

Mechanical Man (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)

Orphan’s Picnic (Mickey Mouse Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Presidential One-Dollar Coin (U.S. Mint; 2007)

Professor Dabbler (Kriterion Kosmos Kartoons Cartoon; 1915)

Radio Riot (Fleischer Tarlkartoon Cartoon; 1930)

Red Dwarf (UK TV Series; 1988)

Return to Never Land (Disney Film; 2002)

Robin Hoody Woody (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)

The Screwball (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1943)

Shake, Rattle and Roll, recorded by Big Joe Turner (Song; 1954)

The Stars, Like Dust, byIsaac Asimov (Novel; 1951) [Galactic Empire #1]

Sucker Games (Krazy Kat Cartoon; 1926)

Super Troopers (Film; 2002)

Take the A Train, recorded by Duke Ellington (Song; 1941)

Taking the Blame (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1935)

A Tuba to Cuba (Documentary Film; 2019)

The Umbrella Academy (TV Series; 2019)

University of Nebraska (School; 1869)

Vision Quit (Film; 1985)

YouTube (Video Sharing Website; 2005)

Today’s Name Days

Georgia, Siegfried (Austria)

Faustin, Onezim, Vitomir (Croatia)

Jiřina (Czech Republic)

Faustinus (Denmark)

Neidi, Tiina (Estonia)

Sipi, Sippo (Finland)

Claude, Georgina, Jordan (France)

Georgia, Jovita, Siegfried (Germany)

Evsevios (Greece)

Julianna, Lilla (Hungary)

Giuliana (Italy)

Džuljeta, Juliāna, Jūlija, Smuidra (Latvia)

Julijona, Julijonas, Tautvydas (Lithuania)

Jill, Julian, Juliane (Norway)

Bernard, Dan, Danisz, Danuta, Julianna, Symeon (Poland)

Pamfil, Valentin (Romania)

Anna (Russia)

Ida (Slovakia)

Juliana (Spain)

Julia, Julius (Sweden)

Cliff, Clifford, Clifton, Jeremiah, Jeremy, Sonnie, Sonny, Sunny (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Clementine Day

National Marcus Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 46 of 2025; 319 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 6 of Week 7 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 26 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 18 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 8 Amshir 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Hackberry (Feb 9-18) [Day 7 of 10]

Hebrew: 17 Shevat 5785

Islamic: 16 Sha’ban 1446

Julian: 2 February 2025

Moon: 91%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 18 Homer (2nd Month) [Phaedrus)

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 57 of 90)

SUn Calendar: 16 Gray; Twosday [16 of 30]

Week: 2nd Week of February

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 27 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 3 of 30)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 21 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 27 of 28)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Capricornus (Day 28 of 28)

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[lboogie1906]

Pastor Harold Robert Perry, S.V.D. (October 9, 1916 – July 17, 1991) was a clergyman of the Catholic Church. An auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, he was the first openly African American Catholic bishop, the second overall, and the first since 1875.

He was the first Black male provincial superior in the US and the first African American clergyman to deliver the opening prayer in Congress.

He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana to Frank J. Perry, a rice mill worker, and his wife Josephine, a domestic cook. The eldest of six children. His cousin Louis V. Ledoux was the first Black diocesan priest in the Deep South. At age 13, he entered St. Augustine Seminary. He continued his studies at ecclesiastical institutions in Illinois and Wisconsin. In 1938, he took vows as a member of the order.

He was ordained to the priesthood. He was the 26th African American to become a Catholic priest. He served as assistant pastor at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Lafayette until 1948 when he was transferred to Notre Dame Church in St. Martinville. He served at St. Peter’s Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and at St. Gabriel’s Church in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, before returning to Louisiana as founding pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Broussard. He built the church, rectory, and school.

He was named rector of his alma mater, St. Augustine Seminary in Bay St. Louis. He joined the National Catholic Council for Interracial Justice. He and other religious leaders were invited to the White House to discuss peaceful desegregation with President John F. Kennedy. He became provincial superior of the Southern province of the Divine Word Society in the US.

He was appointed titular bishop of Mons in Mauretania and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans by Pope Paul VI.

He served as pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church in New Orleans, vicar general of the archdiocese, and rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor. He served as national chaplain of the Knights of Peter Claver. He remained an auxiliary bishop until his death. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence