DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS: True Stories of a Fabled City by William (Bill) C. Norris, Jr. are narratives of the people, places and events that created the city on the Mississippi River with its character and soul. Over three hundred years since French adventurers arrived in the lower Mississippi Valley, followed by Spanish colonists and later hordes of Americans, this book reveals their personalities, motivations, agendas, emotions, temperaments and experiences . Surprises and intrigue populate the pages. The struggles of French, Spanish, Native Americans, persons of...