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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

WRITING THIS BOOK WAS A CHALLENGING ENDEAVOR that I could not have fulfilled without the help of many individuals and organizations.

First of all, I would like to thank Wilderness Press for recognizing the importance of New Orleans as a walking city and former Acquisitions Editor Susan Haynes for giving me this amazing opportunity. I would also like to thank current Acquisitions Editor Tim Jackson for keeping me on track with deadlines and assisting with big-picture issues; Ritchey Halphen, a New Orleans native, for his amazing and meticulous editing; and the production team of cartographer Scott McGrew, typesetter Annie Long, proofreader Rebecca Henderson, and indexer Sylvia Coates for putting all the pieces together and adding the finishing touches.

In addition, I want to thank my sister Donna Goldenberg for her wonderful photography, along with her husband, Eric, and son, Trevor, who accompanied Donna and me on a walk through the breathtaking Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve. And thanks to Janet Pesses for joining me on one of the longest walks in the book—that being the equally spectacular Lakefront area.

In addition, thanks go out to Kathryn Hobgood Ray for her help with the Algiers Point neighborhood, to Beth Donze for her expertise on Faubourg St. John, and to Lisanne Brown for steering me to Crescent Park and other funky spots in Bywater. A big thank-you to Eddie Bronston, my former husband but still good friend, for lending his musical expertise for the walk covering Faubourg Marigny and Frenchmen Street. I’d also like to acknowledge Mike Strecker, my boss at Tulane University, for reviewing the University section and making sure that I included some of Tulane’s most important landmarks.

For two of the walks—the Lower Ninth Ward’s Make It Right neighborhood and Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve—I relied on their materials and maps, and for those I would like to thank both of them. I also want to thank the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation and the St. Tammany Parish Tourist & Convention Commission for providing me with some terrific images.

Although she no longer lives in New Orleans—but knows it almost as well as I do—my daughter and best friend, Sally Bronston, served as a great sounding board as I pondered various aspects of the book, especially what bars and restaurants to include. Thanks, kid! You may live in New York City, but NOLA will always be home.

—Barri Bronston