Loretta and Peg decided to take a little vacation and head to Louisiana to visit the city of New Orleans. The enjoyed the wonderful food that the city has to offer including a visit to Antoines, a very popular restaurant recognized nationally for their cuisine as they visited many points in the city including the Legendary French Quarter. If you would like to see what the Antoine menu looked like in 1971 in pdf format click the link below.
They also managed to find time to visit the above ground city of the dead. Early settlers in the area struggled with different methods to bury the dead. Burial plots are shallow in New Orleans because the water table is very high. Dig a few feet down, and the grave becomes soggy, filling with water. The casket will literally float. You just can’t keep a good person down! The early settlers tried placing stones in and on top of coffins to weigh them down and keep them underground. Unfortunately, after a rainstorm, the rising water table would literally pop the airtight coffins out of the ground. To this day, unpredictable flooding still lifts the occasional coffin out of the ground in areas above the water table, generally considered safe from flooding.
