They Called Us River Rats
Beyond Bourbon Street, an Insider's Guide to New Orleans
English - April 06, 2022 05:05 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 846 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History food mardigras bourbonstreet dining history jazzfest music neworleans nola Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today’s episode is all about the people who live and have lived along the sliver of land between the levee and the Mississippi River called the batture.
To help me explore this culture I’ve enlisted the help of Macon Fry, author of the book They Called Us River Rats, and himself an inhabitant of the batture.