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Derby Gisclair
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New Orleans based published author, speaker, amateur photographer, and dilettante historian. #baseball #boxing #horseracing #steamboats #nolasky #nola #neworleans #history #quotes Sorry but no DMs, no crypto, no porn, no requests for money.
The conundrum is, if she can clear him then he doesn't need to grant her clemency, now does he? Congress should move to return her to the former prison accommodations until she cooperates (albeit from a convicted perjurer). Either way, her "testimony" is tainted.

#trump

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February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Be sure to mark your calendars for Thursday, February 19, 2026, at 7:00pm. Historian and author Edward Branley will be speaking about The Alland Plantation and the origins of City Park.

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Since pitchers and catchers begin reporting today, I thought you might like to see my brief piece on what baseball means to me. The artwork is derived from my old tobacco card collection.

#baseball

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February 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
“Skiing can be thought of as a control and guidance activity, sliding down on a varying surface”
~ David W. Murrie

#quotes #skiing
February 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The May 31, 1862, edition of Harper’s Weekly featured a scene of the naval combat off Fort Wright in the Mississippi River that took place on the morning of May 10, 1862. The gunboat Cincinnati was approached by the rebel ram Louisiana and ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
A detail from an 1863 four-panel panoramic map (click on image to enlarge) of the Mississippi Valley and its Fortifications published by Charles Magnus of New York. The map itself is similar to Norman’s 1858 map of the lower Mississippi River, ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #hisotry
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong.”
~ Morton Shaevitz

#quotes #golf
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Businessman, teacher, and philanthropist Thomy Lafon was a free man of color born into a mixed race family in 1810. From modest beginnings selling baked goods to laborers to owning and operating his own store, Lafon was also an astute businessman ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Among the many businesses and buildings that are no longer part of the fabric of New Orleans is the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Immortalized by artist Edgar Degas in his 1873 painting of cotton merchants (perhaps featuring the artist’s brothers ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 8, 2026 at 9:58 PM
February 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“They don't think it be like it is, but it do.”
~ Oscar Gamble

#quotes #baseball
February 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans became a reality in 1899 when it was authorized by the Louisiana Legislature to manage the city’s water treatment and sewerage systems. Construction of the first filtration plant seen here began ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM
So popular was the new newspaper The Picayune when it was introduced to New Orleans in 1837 that within nine months of its first edition the company began a news delivery service that would retrieve the news from the east faster. (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
From the vault: A Brown Pelican trying to out distance the weather.

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #birds #nature #photography
February 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
"It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important."
~ Andy Rooney

#quotes #football
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The Illinois Central line from New Orleans to Chicago has been known as the Panama Limited since 1911, and the name was retained in 1971 when it was taken over by Amtrak. Dining car service was exceptional and this two-page spread in the menu ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"What are you lookin' at, bub?"

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #birds #nature #photography
February 6, 2026 at 1:03 PM
“The cyclist is a man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century of science and iron could have spawned.”
~ Louis Baudry de Saunier

#quotes #cycling
February 6, 2026 at 11:41 AM
The Rex Shoe Factory was owned and operated by Benjamin Rosenberg & Sons (being Ephraim Rosenberg and Abraham Rosenberg) and was located at 211 – 218 Decatur Street in 1901 but in 1906 had relocated to the four-story brick building shown here ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Charity Hospital, shown in an 1874 engraving, was founded in 1736.Charity Hospital was originally named the Hospital of Saint John or L’Hôpital des Pauvres de la Charité (Hospital for the Poor). The first Charity Hospital was located on the ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 5, 2026 at 10:11 PM
February 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
February 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
If your group or organization would like a presentation on New Orleans history for an upcoming meeting or event, please let me know so we can get something on the books. February is full and March is filling up. Email at [email protected] or with a text to 504-232-4142.

#neworleans #history
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Born in Howard County, Missouri, his family moved to New Orleans in 1837 when John T. Monroe was just 15 years old. He entered politics in 1858 when he was elected to the Board of Assistant Aldermen in the Second Ward. He was one of three ... (continued)

#nolasky #nola #neworleans #history
February 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM