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Dec. 15th, 2010 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI have all the halfway decent pictures from New Orleans' Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1 up on my Flickr page.
No.1 is the oldest cemetery in the city, begun in 1789. The tombs of many famous individuals are here, including, perhaps most infamously, Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans. There are many tombs are in a state of ruin, crumbling bricks or broken shards of inscribed stone littering the ground around them, though at least as many are well kept.
I felt a constant yearning to know more about these places and these people as I explored the twisting alleys and strange corridors of the site. The grounds have been called a 'city of the dead', and indeed it was like walking through narrow streets lined with silent and unearthly buildings.
A Flower for Stephen Rodi
© Stormdog 2010
More pictures of Saint Louis No.1 are in my New Orleans picture set on Flicker.
No.1 is the oldest cemetery in the city, begun in 1789. The tombs of many famous individuals are here, including, perhaps most infamously, Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans. There are many tombs are in a state of ruin, crumbling bricks or broken shards of inscribed stone littering the ground around them, though at least as many are well kept.
I felt a constant yearning to know more about these places and these people as I explored the twisting alleys and strange corridors of the site. The grounds have been called a 'city of the dead', and indeed it was like walking through narrow streets lined with silent and unearthly buildings.
A Flower for Stephen Rodi
© Stormdog 2010
More pictures of Saint Louis No.1 are in my New Orleans picture set on Flicker.
