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The Mother Of Orphans

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Caryn

Margaret Haughery was a philanthropist in the New Orleans area. A philanthropist is “a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.” She was well known as “the mother of the orphans.” Continue reading →

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A Completed Family

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Caryn

My niece, Lacey Killinger has had a banner year this year. Most of this past year was spent planning for and preparing for her wedding. There were fittings, parties, a bachelorette trip to New Orleans, all culminating in the wedding of her dreams on October 28, 2023. Continue reading →

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The Great New Orleans Fire of 1788

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Caryn

I don’t know what kind of a city New Orleans was in 1788, but much of it changed that year, because on March 21, 1788, the first of two great fires left the city in ruins. There are a number of ways to destroy a city…time, storms, neglect, need, and the worst one, fire. Continue reading →

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Change Happens

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Caryn

My Aunt Jeanette Byer has always been a sweet person, who was easy to get along with, and yet she was also a hard working, and really tough lady when she needed to be. For most of the years of my memory, she and my Uncle Larry Continue reading →

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Inundated With Water

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Caryn

The Mississippi River is a is the widest river in the United States. It’s mere size and the amount of water in it, makes one expect that at some point, it is going to flood. In fact, it has flooded many times over the years, but none was anything like the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Continue reading →

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Who Opened The Floodgates?

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Caryn

As a kid, I remember that whenever we were sitting at an intersection that was very busy, causing us to have to wait seemingly forever to be able to get across the intersection, one of my parents would say something … Continue reading →

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Until He Got Home

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Caryn

My uncle, Larry Byer was the older of the three middle children of my grandparents, George and Hattie Byer, and a part of the three musketeers that included my mom, Collene Spencer and their brother, Wayne Byer. Uncle Larry was … Continue reading →

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Town Within A Town

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Caryn

When you think of a town within a town or city, you often think of New York City, where you might find Queens, Harlem, or Yonkers. Or you might think of New Orleans, where you might find the French Quarter … Continue reading →

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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Caryn

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina came screaming into southeast Louisiana. It quickly set its sights on a large lake that many people in the rest of the United States probably didn’t even know existed, and those who did know, … Continue reading →

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Seeing The Sights

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Caryn

When my Uncle Larry and Aunt Jeanette Byer moved to New Orleans, Louisiana after taking a job transfer, I have to imagine that it was pretty hard on my grandmother, Hattie Byer, Uncle Larry’s mom. Grandma, like most mothers, liked … Continue reading →

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