“Everybody’s got this special place they come out of when you have your second line parade. Most of the time, we start and break up at Ms. Jackie and George’s, a barroom on North Claiborne and Dumaine. That Sunday, you will feel like a superstar,” said Darryl Press, founder of the Ole & Nu Style Fellas Social Aid & Pleasure Club. “Our oldest son, Tyrone ‘Trouble’ Miller, who is the president today, is a schoolteacher. He is also the designer and clothes man for our club. I don’t know how he can sit there and cut things out with the little blade he uses with the little measurements, but he can make anything.” 📖 Read more from his interview for HNOC’s “Dancing In The Streets” club narratives: https://ow.ly/6w7G50Vvb4c 🎺 It’s Second Line Sunday! Keep an eye out for Ole & Nu Style downtown this afternoon. See the routes and more information from WWOZ: https://ow.ly/8gJi50Vvb4b 📷 1: Sue Press, Ole & Nu Style Fellas parade. 2017. Photo by and courtesy of Charles Muir Lovell 📷 2: Coming out the door, 2010. Photo by and courtesy of Leslie Parr 📷 3: Ole & Nu Style Fellas parade, 2017. Photo by and courtesy of Charles Muir Lovell 📷 4: Sue Press honoring her mother Emelda Franks. Photo by and courtesy of MJ Mastrogiovanni (fb)

In an attempt to speed their assimilation into US society, the government deposited most first-wave Vietnamese refugee families into towns across the country. In New Orleans, thanks to Catholic Charities’ preexisting resettlement program for Cuban refugees, several thousand Vietnamese people were placed together in apartment complexes, so they could help each other adjust to their new environment. They quickly established tight-knit enclaves, especially in the New Orleans East neighborhood that would come to be known as Versailles. A recently acquired collection of photographs by Mark J. Sindler, who lived in Versailles, provides an intimate view of the Vietnamese community during the first decade of resettlement. Sindler documented his neighbors’ efforts to establish gardens, businesses, and the Church of the Vietnamese Martyrs, which later became Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church, one of the first Vietnamese parishes in the US. Photos and family heirlooms provided by members of the community also illustrate how the next generations left their mark on the city’s landscape and culture. 📖 Read more from HNOC’s Terri Simon on our First Draft blog: https://ow.ly/k9gs50Vv14l 🖼️ These artifacts are on display in HNOC’s new exhibition “Making It Home,” which is now on view. Plan your visit: https://ow.ly/Tzc350Vv14p 📷 1: Vendor transports goods on a carrying pole from weekly Saturday morning market, Versailles community, 1984, by Mark J. Sindler. HNOC, acquisition made possible by the Laussat Society, MSS 1074.1.503.2 📷 2: Weekly Saturday morning market, Versailles community, 1982, by Mark J. Sindler. HNOC, acquisition made possible by the Laussat Society, MSS 1074.1.213.1 📷 3: Khuyen Nguyen waters her small garden plot at the Versailles Arms Apartments , 1978, by Mark J. Sindler. HNOC, acquisition made possible by the Laussat Society, MSS 1074.1.36.1 📷 4: Dedication and blessing of the Church of the Vietnamese Martyrs led by Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, Versailles community, 1978, by Mark J. Sindler. HNOC, acquisition made possible by the Laussat Society, MSS 1074.1.17.2 (fb)