Avast ye scalawags!
We’ve just added our mate Jennifer Raven to our Merchants Market in Houma. Why is that important, ye ask? Because she is artisan & proprietor o’ Red Paw Leather – creators o’ all manner o’ accoutrements. Baldrics, belts, wrapped tankards, arm bracers…all beautifully hand tooled!
Well, not drawing so much as sorting, wrapping, bagging…RECYCLING beads and throws form Mardi Gras and assorted other parades throughout the area! Join us if yer able, Tues. 3 April (10:00am – 1:00pm) Volunteer Bead Sorting at ARC-GNO! This is a great organization that we ‘met’ many years ago – purchasing crawfish sacks full o’ recycled…
There is one consistent fact about “passing a good time” in Louisiana (or anywhere, really); it always seems to end too soon! 2018 marks an official decade o’ gatherings in New Orleans and it’s surrounding territories…ten years o’ community involvement, meeting new mates, discovering new treasure and sharing the food, drink, history & culture that…
NOLA Pyrate Week is essentially a community event – it’s success is thanks to it’s community – a community that extends from New Orleans to all those fine folk worldwide who come to visit, participate and support it. Despite the more “lean” economy this year, we had Pyrates ship in from the UK, Netherlands and…
What a grand adventure it has been thus far! Before we even started our 7th annual NOLA Pyrate Week, we ventured to Baton Rouge to visit with Blanca Rush (a sponsor who donated a large amount o’ her family’s exclusive purple rice to last year’s adventure) and an interview with the Future Leaders of America’s…
“Pieces o’ Eight” was our banner for 2016 – our 8th official year o’ NOLA Pyrate Week – and what an adventure it was! New mates, new places, new monkeys…and finally connecting in person with some mates after many years! Our jolly crew was accompanied by our Master Gunner Weston ‘Irish’ Hurd (ye may catch…
Avast mates – time to trim the sails and haul together! Our beloved mate, Maman Miriam Chamani, Priestess o’ The New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple for these past two and a half decades, has suffered a disaster by fire. In the early hours o’ Monday morning (1 Feb, 2016), what appears to be an electrical…
