Local Tour of the Garden District

I went to elementary school at Audubon Montessori off Broadway and later, Loyola University on St. Charles Ave in the Garden District. I will take you through my old stomping grounds! I lived near Magazine street in college during Hurricane Katrina. I can infuse the tour with my own experience as a local and, also stories dating back the the early 1800's when it was the city of Lafayette. We will start our tour on the infamous Neutral Ground on Canal street where the Americans and Creoles clashed in the early 1800's. We will take the oldest street car line still operating in the United States down St. Charles through mansions and talk about how the Garden District became the most wealthy neighborhood in the South. We will walk to Lafayette Cemetery that inspired Anne Rice's Interview with A Vampire and talk about Catholic and Voodoo traditions that influenced so much of our early culture and beliefs. Then we cruise Magazine street to get a local bite and drink before taking the streetcar back downriver.