“Instead of reading a book, they are  

learning how to read a city.”

 

  

– Upper School English Teacher Ashley Tidey, Ph.D.

 
Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro where students joined Charmaine 
Neville on stage.

 

 
Tour of French Quarter; Streetcar ride to Tulane University 
and lunch with Laguna alums Jack Kinsler ’15 and 
Courtney O’Donnell ’13; Tulane University course on 
Design Thinking; meeting with Rebecca Snedeker (co-
author of Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas); 
dinner with Judge Desiree Charbonnet. 

 

 
Tour of the Whitney Plantation, the first slave museum in 
America; swamp tour; visit to Brandan Odums’ Studio BE 
Mural Project in the Bywater neighborhood.

 

 
Volunteer at Jericho Road Housing Initiative; Tennessee 
Williams Literary Festival class; city walk; Jazz band 
performance at Preservation Hall.

 

 
Visit to Emergency Operations Center at New Orleans City 
Hall, accompanied by Executive Director of Evacuteers 
Kali Rapp; Tour of Treme (New Orleans’ oldest African 
American neighborhood).

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DAY FIVE 

Whitney Plantation Tour Guide shares the  

names of the children who died during slavery.

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