Coronavirus on Tour

Gretchen Upshaw
8 min readMar 25, 2020
Photo courtesy of Ghost City Tours

One of my tour guides told me that “the French Quarter’s residents are hungry and angry.” He was referring to the gigantic rats and unfortunate homeless folks (or “houseless,” I’m not 100% clear on the acceptable term, apologies) who have made the Quarter their home for dare I say centuries. Those “citizens” of the French Quarter are not what most people think of when talking about New Orleans. But underneath the Mardi Gras beads, the Go-Cups, and the…

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Gretchen Upshaw

I like the word “alchemy.” Hildegard of Bingen was a bad ass. I would like to see more purple in the U.S.