Author: Paco Marshall
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The burbs of New Orleans, January 25, 2016
For years, smug liberals in New Orleans have been making fun of Metairie and Kenner, mostly built in the nineteen fifties and sixties; the principal suburbs of New Orleans. Just like all over America, starting after the Second World War, and accelerating in the sixties, middle class whites fled the city limits of New Orleans…
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Florida central east coast, January 8 – 11, 2016
Florida is such a weird place. The cultural polyglot never ceases to amaze, especially from Orlando southward. One writer called Florida “California without the ideas”. For over a hundred years, people in America, and increasingly people from all over the world have picked up stakes and moved here, hoping for a fresh start. …
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Northern Neck of Virginia, Dec. 9-10, 2015
Almost as soon as I got here, I started to ask myself “Why I am doing this?” I guess I have not gotten over that overwhelming compulsion to tour an area that I have never been to, and then write about it. It is getting harder and harder to find new areas to visit. …
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Pilgrimage to Saxapahaw; a walking journey; Nov. 30, 2015
After posts of 95 bicycle rides, I am breaking The Rules (just once) by writing about a walk. If I do more walks, I guess I will have to start a different blog. It is sixteen miles from my apartment on Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill to Jackie & John Ripley’s apartment on the third…
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