Curfew: Stripping kids’ access to the cultural heart of New Orleans
Business & Economy, Crime & Safety, Politics, Recovery
January 18th, 2012
A musical family, kids included, plays Royal Street on a summer evening. (kimncris/flickr creative commons)
By C.W. Cannon, The Lens contributing opinion writer |
When I lived in Europe, I used to josh my British friends with a plan for Britain’s economic future (which looked dim at the time). I suggested that they tear down every structure built after the Seventeenth Century and restore the conditions—industrial, social, economic—of that earlier age, so that American tourists could be assured an authentic medieval experience. Something more realistic and edgier than Orlando’s…
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