“This is the city that Care forgot, a flow of eglantines, and lagniappe, and Sazerac sybaritics. Cockles and Mussel Men and Strawberry Ladies, and Italian Ice Boys, darting in and out of the quarter amid the cacophony of “Spasm” Bands, and what the vulgar populace refer to as ‘Jass’ music. Everyone shakes and quakes, ad infinitum…”
The father of Loomis Reader gleaned something along those lines from the FDR-era Guide Book to New Orleans and environs, and decided back in the late 1950s that, were his beloved namesake (not yet known as Loomis) should befall mishap; then the family should in whole or in part relocate to the Crescent City! Loomis you see, is actually the namesake of his true father, Johnathan Akula Havisham. Loomis’ salvation is truly threefold: New Orleans, his music and Lyndsey Patterson.
(To be continued)
