On June 19, 2014, I will be lecturing and signing copies of my book Hope & New Orleans: A History of Crescent City Street Names at the Nix Library, 1401 S. Carrollton, from 5:30 to 6:30pm. I will also have books to purchase.
I like to make every lecture a bit different – focusing on different themes usually related to the area or the place. I also like to expand on my book with new information and slides.
This lecture will be a bit more general but with some focus on misspellings. Five of the streets I will cover are either misspelled or misnamed; they range from a French royal, to a Civil War general, to a police chief, to a young boy. Find out why in the 1940s a historian suggested that New Orleans set up a Department of Public Proofreading!