Charlotte Moss In New Orleans!

Charlotte Moss will be in New Orleans Wednesday and Thursday. She has been invited by the Preservation Resource Center and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles Magazine to be the guest speaker at the Renaissance Awards that they sponsor.

You can still get a ticket to this wonderful luncheon to hear Charlotte Moss, and experience the fabulous Roosevelt Hotel where the lunch is being held.

Alberto and I will be attending. I am so thrilled to be able to see Charlotte Moss again. I don't really know her, except for stopping in the incredilble shop she once had in New York on the Upper East Side, but of course I know her by reputation that means more to me now than it did back then when I was just another shopper.

Renaissance Award recipients Alberto Paz And Valorie Hart - Irish Channel  -  from New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles           all photos  by Sara Essex Bradley

Also, Alberto and I are been honored as one of the five recipients of the Renaissance Award! It is no secret that Alberto and I are dedicated to New Orleans, and have found our special place on earth here. Little did we know that eleven years after New Orleans chose us, that we would be recognized in this way.  I say that New Orleans chose us, because when we first decided to move here, everything fell in place for us. And then Katrina.

Renaissance Award recipients Lydia And Blair Francis Bacon - University District

We bought our house one year before Katrina. It is nothing remarkable in the vernacular of architecture in New Orleans. Just another broken down shotgun house, one of thousands of working class homes here. But we were so happy to be able to get it, and while we didn't have deep pockets to do the type of historical renovation we would have liked to, we nursed our old girl back to stability, and made her pretty, and made her a home to that we enjoy and that we love to share.

Renaissance Award recipient Beverly McKenna - Upper Treme

A few months ago, The Preservation Resource Center invited us to be on their Shotgun House Tour in the Irish Channel (the neighborhood where we live), and we said a whole hearted YES!. It's not a beauty contest kind of tour, but rather an event where homeowners show the possibilities of saving an old house in a realistic accessible manner. We met hundreds of wonderful people that day, and we hope we inspired and encouraged them in their own pursuits of saving and rebuilding our city, one house at at time.

Renaissance Award recipients Wes and Melinda McWhorter - Irish Channek

So if you are around Thursday afternoon, come to the Roosevelt, and show some support for the PRC. They are unwavering heroes in the work they do foe New Orleans.

J. Warldaw Witherspoon Jr. - Uptown

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