Cornerstones:

Celebrating the Everyday Monuments

& Gathering Places of New Orleans

 

Written and Compiled by

Rachel Breunlin

Abram Himelstein

Bethany Rogers

 

Edited by

Rachel Breunlin

 

Paperback, 10"x13", 96 pages

ISBN: 0-9706190-3-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-9706190-3-7

 

 

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This is New Orleans history through place—less from the Andrew Jackson slept here style and more This is where my parents met style: barrooms as comfortable as living rooms, an empty lot that holds more life than many houses, a barbershop that doubles as an artist's studio, and a museum that grew out of one man’s back shed. Through interviews, photographs, site maps, and architectural drawings, we document the intersections of places and people that make New Orleans great.

 

In partnership with the Tulane City Center, the Neighborhood Story Project has been working with Cornerstones, a new project dedicated to documenting important everyday monuments and meeting places around New Orleans. We invite you to join the beginning of Cornerstones—a movement to document the places that hold our history. Nominate the places that you have called home, that tell the story of your community, or that serve as neighborhood landmarks. The places where you danced all night, were led to by a parade or Mardi Gras Indian tribe, were taken to by your grandparents or next door neighbor, or were claimed through a story all your own.

 

NPR devoted a two part series to Cornerstones. Click here for information and an image gallery from the book.

 

Click here to read Susan Larson's article in the Times Picayune.

 

Click here to read a review in New Orleans Magazine.

 

Click here to read about the Neighborhood Story Project.