Secrets of Storyville: New Orleans’ Red-light District

I was recently a guest on Louisiana Life’s podcast to talk about the 125th anniversary of the start of Storyville, New Orleans’ red-light district. Errol Laborde, Executive Editor of New Orleans Magazine and Louisiana Life Magazine, and I discuss Storyville’s origins, some of the movers and shakers, and even where some of the notorious are buried!

Listen HERE!

And if you want to actually see where some of the people who made up Storyville are buried, you can book a tour with me.

A Storyville prostitute. Photograph by E.J. Bellocq.

For even more information, read my article Last Days of Storyville, which won First Place for Feature Reporting from the Press Club of New Orleans.

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