St Margaret's At Mercy

Take part celebrating the life, work and literary accomplishments of one of America's most important writers at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival. Williams is remembered through writing workshops, panel discussions, literary readings, stage performances, a book fair, music, writing contests and other events incorporating literature, poetry and other art forms - and more importantly, food and drink!

Forget what the history books have told you about Southern plantation homes and see the beauty of one for yourself. The Oak Alley Plantation has been standing since the late 1830s and its famous live oak trees have been around even longer.

Hear an eyewitness account about the event that forever changed New Orleans on the Hurricane Katrina Tour. The tour explores the destruction and devastation of the storm, touring the hardest hit areas and telling the story of what happened in the days prior to, and the weeks after the hurricane made landfall.