Visiting New Orleans

Sight Seeing Day Two, Part Two!!

June 17, 2015

Joan of Arc Statue!! France erected the statue in 1972 as a gift to New Orleans!!
This is one of several picturesque displays, walking from the parking lot to Jackson Square!!
A big Italian Market in the French Quarter.Almost everything Italian is there !! I bought Italian garden seeds.
A picture taken from the car going down St. Charles Street!!
This is a pretty vault at the local cemetery we passed each day!!
Open scene from the large City Park we passed each day going too and from town!!
Walking back to the car beside the Mississippi River, with the city in front and going to a Party tonight!!
The bridge crossing the river in the distance!!
An empty barge, right in front of us!!

Party Time

Maria Compagno, Barbara Del Buono, Marlene Marchese Manfre, Steve Vizzini Manfre and Tony Pittari. All the Ustica surnames we have. We had a great time together.
Chris Caravela, President of the Congregation of the Apostle Bartolomeo, an Ustica group. Chris had planned the party and did all the cooking, Mangia !!! Marlene with Steve Vizzini at the Usticesi party. We met him back in San Francisco several years ago! He is a Manfre of Ustica descent, now living in New Orleans. It was a surprise to see him.
This is a group shot of almost everyone that attended the dinner party. The party was in honor of 2 California Usticesi visiting New Orleans, Barbara Del Buono Morrison and Marlene Marchese Manfre Robershaw, with husbands Tony and Ronald. The party was at the home of Jo Eva Flettrich, a New Orleans member of the group.

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