Nelson Algren when Wicker Park was real.
Early in his first term President Obama made noise about bringing back a new deal of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) as a method to resurrect the economy. It is too bad this never came to pass.
Writers, artists, former newspaper journalists and photographers could chronicle the green economy, foodways and stories of the scores of immigrants who are changing America’s landscape.
Engaging state travel guides were written between 1935 and 1943 through the Federal Writer’s Project of the WPA. I still use them today when I travel. [...]
The Big Doors at Under the Hill, May 1, 2014
NATCHEZ, Ms.- It is hard to place a number on all the great things about drinking at the Under the Hill Saloon.
There’s the stunning sunset on the Mississippi River. The bar has a dwarf bartender. As my friend Bill FitzGerald pointed out last night there likely is no other tavern so close to the Mississippi River.
Then there are the characters you encounter.
I meet them every spring on my way to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Last night was no different. (For my 2002 take on Under the Hill circle back to this site’s [...]
