+"BRONZE JOHN" IN THE HEAT+ >banana bunch infections< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >it is shocking to read that in summer 1905 THERE WERE 3,286 CASES OF YELLOW FEVER & 423 DEATHS (tropic syndrome) +IN OLD NEW ORLEANS+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +SOBERING REALITY+ >this is only 30 years before your correspondent entered this +TROPIQUE MAGIQUE+ +METAPHYSIQUE+ ^^^^^^^^^ +FIVE YEARS LATER+ >in 1937 i can remember open canals on claiborne ave. and the sounds >-bites of hungry mosquitos at +4536 SOUTH JOHNSON ST+ >my ray/degruy grandparents home +LARGE-RAISED-CREOLE+ +SCREEN PORCH+ >not far from claiborne/napoleon< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +INFECTED MOSQUITOS WERE+ >summer 1905 scourge< +FOUND IN BANANA BUNCHES+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +2000 YELLOW FEVER CASES+ >in summer 1897 with 300 deaths had caused shock waves in the old city +LONG DEATHLY HISTORY+ >the very year dr. walter reed< >discovered the mosquito< +CAUSE IN TROPIC CUBA+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >NEW ORLEANS WAS QUARENTINED+ +IN 1905 AND ST. TAMMANY PARISH+ >ray/degruy & staigg/cavaroc< +SAVED MY GRANDPARENTS+ >and their young children< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +MACKEY'S PINE OIL PLANT+ >i remember very well in the heart of old covington providing the elixer +PUNGENT AROMA+ >to keep mosquitos in stupors<. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "PRESERVATION IN PRINT" >(gift, thanks to mary lynn hyde)< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >journal of the "preservation resource center of new orleans" is focused in >the april 2010 issue on old< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +COVINGTON & MANDEVILLE+ >with many revealing articles and >heartwarming photographs< >of familiar old environs.< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +"THE OZONE BELT"+ >an article w/ a photograph of cousin bernard marigny's plantation ruin +BRICK SUGAR MILL+ >at mandeville the town he founded >remind us that our great great... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +GRANDFATHER FRANCOIS+ >verloin degruy's "pineland park" sugar >plantation was to the west along lake pontchartrain near +MADISONVILLE+ ^^^^^^^^^ >(google: eugene ray / degruy / >pineland park for essays (also sansouci forest) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ +WHARTON-BUTLER HOUSE+ (bogue falaya river locus) >ad in the preservation magazine offers +SALE SUMMER 2010 + >a large mansion in old covington of the +COVINGTON FOUNDER+ >home of john wharton who built it in +1830 VITAL deGRUY YEAR+ >and union general "beast" butler who used it for post civil war summers ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +1959-1969 ARCADIA+ >i could write a book about the decade of memories in covingon. of my +DEAR COVINGTON FRIENDS+ >especially the lobdells, barrangers, percys, ellises, beemans, watersons, +ARTISTIC ENCLAVES+ >hoods, and many assorted souls >who created a highly civilised< +CULTURAL AMBIENCE+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >through the mists of time< >other covington attractions< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +THE PASSION OF OUR FAMILY FOR+ +ST. TAMMANY PARISH WAS+ (most probably) +INHERITED GENETIC MEMORY+ >and appreciation of the< +PINELAND ESSENCE+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ gene ray, san diego, california