Thinking of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who joined the Union army during the Civil War, fought, died, and was buried, all as a man, "Lyons." She is buried at the Union cemetery at the Chalmette Battlefield.
We brought her zinnias this Memorial Day.
"Imperfectly vertical," a description offered of run down New Orleans houses in Confederacy of Dunces, attempts to keep some kind of record of the things I read, see, and hear.
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