New Orleans Inn: Sully Mansion Bed and Breakfast

It is ten days since our last post and we still don’t know the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf.  All of us in New Orleans are following the news closely and there is a sense of waiting , as the currents move the slick first closer than further from our coast lines, and while we wait, some local corporations decided to throw a party to raise money for the shrimpers, oystermen and fishermen of Louisiana whose lives have been put on hold.  There was a review of the music of the Treme series in the New York Times this weekend which put it better than we can  “…more than any particulars of charters or plot, it is the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music- as communal ritual, as cultural currency that forms the backbone (they were talking about the television show but it is easily applicable to any facet of the city).  So after cleaning the inn we went down and among enormous Mardi Gras floats, with the Mississippi River flowing by, amazing seafood specialties offered from our best restaurants we listened and danced to Big Sam’s Funky Nations, Soul Rebels, John Legend, Zachary Richard, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Ani DiFranco, Allen Toussaint and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, , and the Voice of the Wetlands as afternoon slipped into the evening- all played soulfully tunefully and beautifully.  It was one of those special New Orleans moments where we really felt like a special community, bringing our best gifts of food music and compassion to respond to a crisis.  Wish you were here to share it.