Tracking Tennessee

On the heels of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival falls the great Southern playwright’s birthday today. We spent the weekend celebrating and toasting Tennessee all over New Orleans and can report that he’s very much alive and well there. His likeness can be found throughout the French Quarter on any given weekend, along with businesses named in his honor, but during the festival weekend, Tennessee is everywhere. As Stanleys and Stellas scream in Jackson Square, his spirit pulls up to the bar at Arnaud’s for a Sazerac, his face beckons to tourists looking to take home a piece of art and it’s likely he could appear on a balcony somewhere wearing his trademark cream suit and Panama hat.