Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city became "Paris on the Mississippi," the fashionable cultural capital of the American South, home to America's first opera house and birthplace of jazz.
Many think of New Orleans, with its antebellum mansions, above-ground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks as a haunted place. It is certainly the most un-American of American cities,...

This collection of 12 powerful, life affirming testimonies is meant to inspire ANYONE who is journeying though any type of life challenge. These contributors were once labeled cancer SURVIVORS, but they have used their experiences to THRIVE in their lives.