Sandwiched In with Ron Brown - Around the World to New Orleans

New Orleans: The City of Vampires, Voodoo, Swamp Jews, Zombies, Catholic Saints, Televangelists

Ancient Indian legends have it that New Orleans is the playground of the Goddess of the Sea and a temple once stood on the site of the later French city. Humans only live there at her pleasure. When the residents of the Crescent City displease her, she sends hurricanes and floods to punish them. She brings the dead back to life as Zombies, she rules an army of blood sucking vampires, she is venerated by the followers of Voodoo, incarnate in the Catholic cult of Our Lady Star of the Sea, even modern televangelists fear her wrath when she punishes the city with a new hurricane. No city in America had inspired such an outpouring of poetry, music, art, novels, films, video games, and tourism as New Orleans. Even the city’s most renowned chronicler of the arcane, the mysterious, the diabolical, the blood thirsty, and the mystical, Anne Rice, attempted to flee New Orleans for San Francisco and abandon the world of vampires for Jesus Christ but failed. She again lives in the famed Garden District in a house filled with her beloved vampires. (Sponsored by the Friends of the Library)

Recorded at the Lapham Meeting Room, Port Washington Public Library

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