wish I could take credit for this
This letter to the editor in today's Times-Picayune.
"When Lafcadio Hearn moved to New Orleans in the 1870's, he wrote to a friend back in Cincinnati:
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe that I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Yes.
C. Ward Bond
Baton Rouge"
"When Lafcadio Hearn moved to New Orleans in the 1870's, he wrote to a friend back in Cincinnati:
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe that I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Yes.
C. Ward Bond
Baton Rouge"
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