Cemetery Report.

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2 is under Bud’s Broiler. It’s true. The Bulldog is also on top of that potter’s field, that mass grave of the indigent. So is Dollar General.

Dollar General is haunted by the ghosts of yellow fever victims buried under its foundation. You can see them in the housewares aisle.

I didn’t go to No. 2. There is nothing there. There wasn’t much more at No. 1. Not even a breeze was stirring.

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 1 still has the original front gate with its original name. There is a new fence with a fleur-de-lis and hurricane symbol design that doesn’t merit being photographed. The gate was open though cars are not allowed inside.

I tend to skirt rules, as you shall see behind the paywall.

There wasn’t much going on at the Katrina Memorial. I was hoping to catch a cemetery tour, which are nowadays frequent at the end of the Cemeteries streetcar line. There was nothing to speak of, only souls to remember.

Let us offer each other requiescat in pace

I turned my head to look for a sign in the sky over the cemetery next door.

An asterix marked the spot.

Every New Orleans is oyster-plump with signs and portents.

I discovered some open graves.

Photos to follow. Investigative citizen journalism at its best, if most eccentric. THIS ONE IS TOTALLY WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION FOR THE MORBIDLY CURIOUS. King’s honor.