It was a friend of mine, Maureen Detweiler, who made famous the observation that the reason so many old houses in New Orleans lean a little is that their attics are packed with years-worth of bags filled with Carnival beads. The problem probably began to worsen after 1969 when Bacchus introduced the really big, lethal-sized beads […]
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