Happy Boxing Day from The Freckled Wonder!
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"MERRY CHRISTMAS from Frank & Virginia" : A Requiem for Santa, Cir. 1950
Maybe a decade ago, in the middle of the summer, my brother gave me a stack of vintage Christmas cards that were vibrant as the day they they were printed. Being that it wasn't close to December, I stashed them away in the archive stacks , thinking little of them until…
Write up on WWOZ.org
By Carrie Halder, WWOZ – "It's a golden age for archive access. Another unique collection is slowly hitting the web, this time in the form of newspapers at the New Orleans Digital News Paper Archive (NOLA DNA). Local preservationist Joseph Makkos is the recipient of 30,000 tubes filled with…
Gambit: "Meet the man who is digitizing thousands of old New Orleans newspapers"
Meet the man who is digitizing thousands of old New Orleans newspapers BY ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS – "Anyone who's ever tried going through The Times-Picayune's newspaper archive knows that it can be frustrating and often tedious. The archived papers look like they were scanned with technology from the 1970s,…
Headed to NOCAZ (NEW ORLEANS COMICS AND ZINES FEST) 11-15-2014
Downtown at the New Orleans Public Library. NOLA DNA recieved a brief mention in Andrew Mullins III's article here:"BOOK LOOK Comics & Zines in Focus at NOCAZ Fest" All the credit goes to the core group that organized and put this event on. Really looking forward to…
Restored “Doughboy” Reclaims Place of Honor in Mid-City
NEW ORLEANS – This Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11th, 2014, the bronze WWI “doughboy” retakes his ground in the revamped green space at Tulane Avenue and South Galvez Street. This area was once commonly known to people in the lower Mid-City neighborhood as Billy Goat Park, but in 1966 it was…