Month: April 2012

All my life, it seems, I have been a wannabe. Now, with the advent of New Media, an advent 20 years in the making, I have decided to BE. For the past 20 years (plus), I have been a student of New Media, of books great and small, of history, of geneology, and of philosophy. […]

Working on the Natchez Indian lesson plan. It’s taking forever. Also, I have set up a new blog on wordpress, it’s called 1718neworleans2018

I have to begin today by declaring an unsubstantiated axiom to preface my historical  discussions and recipes for the Petticoat Rebellion Cookbook. That axiom is that Smuggling was the foundation of the Louisiana colonial economy. A corollary to this is that if a foodstuff, spice, herb, or potable was available anywhere in the Caribbean, or […]

Six more years.  Back in 2006, when the brick-and-mortar Philosopher’s Stone was still a reality, it occurred to me that 2018 would be here sooner than anyone expected. I believed that the bookstore should begin building its antiquarian New Orleans and Louisiana collection in anticipation of that great occasion. Economics and Recession put an end […]