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1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) |
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"No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achievements, dubious dabblings, unavoidable foibles, relationships gone sour, and happenstances that turn out to be life-changing. To be sure, there are stories about Carnival monarchs, great philanthropists, and a few politicians. But because New Orleans embraces eccentric behavior, there are stories of people who colored way outside the lines. For instance, there was the doctor who used his plasma to make his flowers grow, and the philanthropist who took money she had put aside for a fur coat to underwrite the lawsuit that desegregated Tulane University. A letter carrier everyone loved turned out to have been a spy during World War II, and a fledgling lawyer changed his lifelong thoughts about race when he saw blind people going into a Christmas party through separate doors--one for white people and another for African Americans. Then there was the punctilious judge who got down on his hands and knees to edge his lawn--with scissors. Because New Orleans funerals are distinctive, the author includes accounts of four that he covered, complete with soulful singing and even some dancing. As a popular, local bumper sticker indisputably declares, 'New Orleans--We Put the Fun in Funeral'"-- Provided by publisher |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; THE OBITUARIES; Edith Rosenwald Stern; Alton Ochsner; Albert Walter Dent; Muriel Bultman Francis; Robert Gordy; J. Skelly Wright; Norman N. Newhouse; Allen ""Black Cat"" LaCombe; Caroline Durieux; Walker Percy; John Ognibene; Barbara Boggs Sigmund; Phyllis Dennery; Alvin B. Rubin; Thomas Bloodworth Jr.; William J. ""Buzzy"" Fanning; Victor H. Schiro; Jim Garrison; Carlos Marcello; Ted Wisniewski; Sam Wilson; John Schwegmann; Jules L. Cahn; Hazel Guggenheim McKinley; Pierre Clemenceau; Brenda MacBeth; Charles L. ""Pie"" Dufour; Harry Bartlett Kelleher Sr. |
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Nellie May ""Jack"" Kelleher Marjorie Roehl; Rosa Freeman Keller; Elinor Bright Richardson; Mary Morrison; John Minor Wisdom; Enrique Alferez; Betty Werlein Carter; Myldred Plauché Landry; William V. Garibaldi Jr.; Eudora Welty; Jamie Shannon; James Roberts; Ruth Fertel; Charles J. Hatfield; Nehemiah Atkinson; Rodney Fertel; Iris Kelso; Bernice Norman; Homer Dupuy; Elizabeth Anderson; Sunny Norman; Haydel White Sr.; Edward ""Bud Rip"" Ripoll; Albert Aschaffenburg; Harry Tervalon; Iler Pope; Warren McDaniels; Al Copeland; Revius Ortique Jr.; Francis Fitzpatrick; Ruthie the Duck Girl |
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John ""Wimpy"" Miller Jr. Luba Glade; Connie Marie Thomas; William Terral; Stocker Fontelieu; Fred Feran; Walter G. Cowan; Catherine Clark Mayer; Lambert Joseph ""Bobby"" Gonzales Jr.; Raul Bertuccelli; Sue Hawes; Jean Danielson; Andrew ""Moo Moo"" Sciambra; Jimmy Brennan; Wendy Roberts; Philip Henry McCrory Jr.; Jill Jackson; Bill Monroe; Jessie Poesch; Kathleen ""Kathy"" Vick; Henry George Schmidt; John ""Johnny"" Mosca; Richard ""Buzzy"" Gaiennie; Lala Dunbar; Taffy Maginnis; Yvonne ""Miss Dixie"" Fasnacht; Arthur Q. Davis; Judy Cobb; Barbara Wellam Songy; Dominic ""Dom"" Grieshaber Sr. |
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Luvenia Breaux Jack Dempsey; Milton Wise; Diana Pinckley; Myrtle Mary Franichevich Mary; Paul McIlhenny; Frank Polozola; Vernon Shorty; Charlotte Lang; Cyril ""Big Chief Iron Horse"" Green; André Victor Wogan; James J. Lynch Jr.; Mercedes Tucker Stamps; Joseph Sabatier Jr.; Dorothy ""Miss Dot"" Domilise; Bill Johnston; Barry Henry; Liselotte Levy Weil; Elvin Ragnvald ""Vald"" Heiberg III; Ruth Rogan Benerito; Betty Guillaud; Josie Marino Ortolano; George Rodrigue; Charles ""Pete"" Savoye; Emile E. Martin III; Fred Bronfin; Ervin Aden; Daniel Levy Jr.; Mickey Easterling; Ted Sternberg |
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Courtney Giarrusso Rowena Spencer; Alden ""Doc"" Laborde; THE FUNERALS; Warren McDaniels; Al Copeland; Revius Ortique Jr.; Lindy Boggs; Acknowledgments |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Obituaries -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Obituaries. |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies. |
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New Orleans (La.) -- Biography.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- Sources.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Biographies.
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Sources.
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Biographies.
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Times-picayune.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pope, John (Reporter). Getting off at Elysian Fields. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 9781496803757 (DLC) 2015005239 |
| ISBN |
9781496803764 (electronic book) |
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1496803760 (electronic book) |
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9781496803795 (electronic book) |
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1496803795 (electronic book) |
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9781496803771 (electronic book) |
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1496803779 (electronic book) |
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9781496803757 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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