Stretching from the riverfront to the cemeteries, Canal Street has served as a place for meeting, shopping, protesting, and parading since its creation in 1807. From white-gloved shopping trips at D.H. Holmes to department store boycotts by the NAACP, from Mardi Gras parades to Christmas displays, steamships to streetcars, Canal Street has been a gathering place full of diverse sights and sounds for 200 years. Written by local historian and Historic New Orleans Collection curator John Magill and WYES-TV host Peggy Scott Laborde, Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way chronicles the evolution of this grand street and all its events, memories, failures, and successes.

Since 1987, Ms. Laborde has been the senior producer for the New Orleans PBS station, WYES-TV, where she has developed, produced, and hosted documentaries and in-studio productions about New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In addition to "Canal Street: The Great Wide Way," she has produced, narrated, or consulted for over forty-five documentaries, including "Where New Orleans Shopped," "The Lost Restaurants of New Orleans," "The French Quarter That Was," "Mardi Gras: The Passing Parade," "Holy New Orleans!", and "Streetcar Stories," among others.  Ms. Laborde received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at the University of New Orleans in 1975.

 

ISBN: 9781589803374

Hardback

8.5 x 11

240 pages

Pelican Publishing, 2006