If you feel nostalgic about the days of gorgeous hoop skirts, handsome southern gentlemen, and exquisite dinners, then you’ll love this memoir in which Ms. Ripley takes readers back to antebellum days in New Orleans. Realizing that the times recorded here had drifted away forever, the author purposed to make a record for her progeny of the way things used to be.
Readers will journey to a New Orleans that is no longer remembered from experience by anyone alive today. Ms. Ripley describes everything from boarding school to old wedding traditions. Read about the Old French Opera house, steamboats, and the lovely hotel at the gulfside town of Pass Christian. New Orleans still retains much of the warm, easy living feel that was so cherished in antebellum days, so modern readers will easily appreciate the voyage back to a time of such grandeur.