Design
A Massive Mural Celebrates New Orleans’s Spectacular Parades
The planned 150-foot painting of the city’s Second Line festivities keeps the culture alive in a changing neighborhood.
On a given day, the intersection of St. Claude and Franklin Avenues in New Orleans appears unremarkable: wide streets bisected with patches of grass and trees; a Shell station on one corner, a McDonald’s on another.
But three times a year, the area overflows with the sound of brass band music as people take to the streets in their best clothes to dance their way through the neighborhood.