Native Son Tours
Native Son Tours
The very best in New Orleans tours!
Have you ever had a French Creole, native son of New Orleans introduce you to the murky depths of the Crescent City? I am a student of history and folklore, but I also grew up on these stories. My roots reach back to the city’s founding, almost 300 years ago, and there are many historical figures I count among my relations, including: J. Blanc Monroe and famed Storyville photographer E.J. Bellocq. Let me “tell ya’ like I heard it,” then I’ll tell you the facts. I promise an exceptional experience every time!
Small and Personal Experiences
I specialize in small groups and personalized adventures. While the legal size limit on tour groups is twenty-eight people, I usually will cut off at twelve. Why be part of the crowd when instead I can be your new best friend for a few hours? Everyone gets to ask questions, there is more time to expand on particular things should you wish, and no one ‘sits at the back of the class.’ History, folklore, geek culture, pop culture, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the food and entertainment scene are a few of the skills I’m ready to put at your service!
Sex, Duels, and Rock 'N Roll
This tour is rated PG-13 due to language and adult material.
They emptied out the French Prisons to help settle here, and that has set the tone for almost 300 years of New Orleans history! From May Bailey’s “License”, Led Zeppelin’s antics in the Quarter, a history of local prostitution, and Lucky Dogs, I’ll bring you the fun and outrageous tales as well as the history behind them .
Cemetery Tours
No matter which historic cemetery we visit I have relatives there. My cemetery tours focus on St Louis #1 (Marie Laveau’s Tomb), St Louis #2 (Blu Lu Barker’s Tomb) near the French Quarter and Lafayette #1 in the Garden District. Please book through Two Chicks Walking Tours . or contact me directly!
Burial practives, pirates, historical figures, musicians, secret societies and more await when you join me on a visit to New Orleans’ Cities of The Dead.
Tours last approx 2 hrs.
Ghosts and Legends
Delphine Lalaurie
No city has the mystique that New Orleans does when it comes to tales of the weird and the supernatural. Stories that range from the LaBranche Curse and the notorious Lalaurie Mansion (as seen on American Horror Story), to an undead Creole chess master and more!
Two flavors of ghost tour are available: I run the Cynics Ghost Tour for Two Chicks Walking Tours, where i not only tell the old horror stories, but also debunk them and show the actual history that lies behind them. For those who prefer to retain the mystery I also run standard ghost tours (sans debunking) by appointment.
Garden District
This is the neighborhood I grew up in, founded in 1832 and the sit of Lafayette Cemetery #1. AHS Coven fans will be delighted to know that Miss Robichaux’s Academy is featured. Anne Rice fans, this is the one for you! The Civil War, celebrity homes and amazing architecture are discussed in a 2 hour tour. Book Through Two Chicks Walking Tours and request Loki.
“People don’t live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.” Ian McNulty, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina, 2008
“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.” Mark Twain
“Outside the window New Orleans, the vieux carre, brooded in a faintly tarnished languor like an aging yet still beautiful courtesan in a smokefilled room, avid yet weary too of ardent ways.” William Faulkner, Mosquitoes, 1927
“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being–ever mindful of its personal style.” Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume, 1984
