One Book One New Orleans

Thank you Dear New Orleans for an amazing photo shoot of our 2010 Kickoff event at the McKenna Museum of African Art!

Before being photographed, everyone was prompted to finish the sentence “My New Orleans is….” on their hand. Check out some of the imaginative and inspiring responses on our Facebook album.

“I was fourteen when I left the Home. My father was still working in the turpentine factory and he had his boss have a talk with Judge Wilson. I was released on the condition that I would live with my father and stepmother. They came to get me on a beautiful evening in June when the air was heavy with the odor of honeysuckle. How I loved that smell! On quiet Sunday nights when I lay on my bunk listening to Freddie Keppard and his jazz band play for some rich white folks about half a mile away, the perfume of those delicious flowers roamed about my nostrils.”
(p.52)

Which scents and sounds remind you of summer?

Aimed at emerging entrepreneurs, successful business leaders, business associations, non-profits and social networking organizations, Playhour is the crossroads where professionals are able to mingle, share ideas and socialize, all in the speakeasy setting of the Playhouse.

One Book One New Orleans will be the program featured this week. There will be drink specials, …hors d’oeuvres, and music by Roman Skakun, an emerging vibraphonist, followed by Johnaye Kendrick at 8 p.m.

Thursday, September 2
5 – 8 pm
Irvin Mayfield Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
300 Bourbon Street

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“Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong will be airing under the Best Seller Non Fiction time slot on WRBH 88.3:
Monday through Friday at 9 am and 9 pm central time beginning August 26th!!