2018 Tricentennial Lecture Series
In 2018, BK House and VCPORA were thrilled to host and co-present, The Vieux Carre at 300: New Perspectives on an Old Neighborhood, a 12-part series of educational lectures and programs highlighting unique aspects of French Quarter history in honor of New Orleans's tricentennial year.
The following programs were presented:
January: This Didn't Happen by Chance: 100 Years of Preservation in the French Quarter with John Stubbs, Director of Preservation Studies at Tulane School of Architecture
February: “Here Are the Freemen Who Claim Their Rights!”
with Mark Roudané, great-great grandson of Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez,
founder of the South’s first African-American newspaper and daily
March: How to Save a Neighborhood with Nathan Chapman and Keith Hardie
April: "Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed presented by Dr. Mary Niall Mitchell
May: Grace King and New Orleans: The Place and People of Her Roots (And Ours) presented by Dr. Miki Pfeffer
June: Building an Epidemic City: Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans presented by Dr. Urmi Engineer Willoughby
July: A Social History of the French Quarter Through Madame John's Legacy presented by John Magill
August: From Exile to Decadence: An LGBT+ History of the French Quarter presented by Frank Perez, President of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana
September: River Ramblings presented by historian and longtime river steamboat captain, Clarke "Doc" Hawley
October: A Fall Fête for the Building Arts! presented with The New Orleans Master Crafts Guild, and featuring Jeff Poree, Darryl Reeves and Jonn Hankins
November: Reflections of Cosimo Matassa: An Italian Perspective of the French Quarter presented by musician and historian Jack Stewart
December: Transitions: Vestiges of Lost New Orleanian Food Traditions presented by Liz Williams, a founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum
The Vieux Carre at 300 was presented with partial support from:
