The Accidental City Quotes

“New Orleans developed into something greater than a mere entrepôt for a continent. It became a state of mind, built on the edge of disaster, where the lineages of three continents and countless races and ethnicities were forced to crowd together on slopes of the natural levee and somehow learn to improvise a coexistence whose legacy may be America’s only original contribution to world culture.”
― Lawrence N. Powell, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

“Sometime in the 1920s or 1930s, a Cajun trapper reportedly found the tablet La Salle had buried near the river’s mouth in 1682. Unable to make sense of its Latin inscription, he melted the lead into fishing weights and buckshot. 21”
― Lawrence N. Powell, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans