Author Archives: Keith Marshall

How's Bayou? Nolavini, vidi, vici!

Madewood photographed by Clarence John Laughlin in the 1940s, before the Marshall's got their hands on it. This image, 24" x 36," once hung in the Carondelet Street entrance to Godchaux's. The first Leon Godchaux bought Madewood from the Pugh family in the 1880s.

  Millie and I were couch potatoes before Dan Quayle misspelled the singular of the tuber. We've been ahead of the curve for most of the sedentary pleasures computers have brought us, and Millie laps up social media. ... Read More »

Swingin' with Dr. Tichenor

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Is Dr. Tichenor's the new crack? On a recent visit to a CVS drugstore to replenish my stash of Dr. Tichenor's Peppermint Mouthwash Concentrate & First Aid Antiseptic -- as the colorful label reads these days, it was ... Read More »

How's Bayou? If Millie met Janis

Proto-Janis, c. 1972, in an Uptown parlor

  My charming wife, Millie, whose father was convinced she wasn't nearly as liberal as she thought she was, has always maintained that if she'd been born a few years later, she'd have been Janis Joplin -- with ... Read More »