Today after exploring the Cabildo, Presbytere, and the Jazz Museum my head is exploding with an influx of information. There are so many amazing musicians in this area, but currently at the Jazz Museum there is a Louis Prima exhibit. He wrote the song called "sing, sing, sing" in the movie the Jungle Book that the chimpanzee (King Louie) sings. Louie Prima was the first musician to record/perform the song "I Wanna Be Like You" that the chimp sings in Jungle Book as well. At the cabildo we learned about Captain Maunsel White, who fought in the Battle of New Orleans. He was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States. He commanded the Louisiana Blues which is a militia company. After negotiating the exchange of prisoners with the British, White became a life long friend of our later president Andrew Jackson. At the Presbytere, we learned about three major hurricanes that have greatly impacted New Orleans. Hurricane Betty, Katrina, and Rita. The part of these exhibits that impacted me the most was in one of the videos where a first responder was describing her experience when rescuing survivors of Katrina. She was helping a mother and son, and they did not have a carrier to hoist a baby up into a helicopter for air evacuation, so the first responder had to grip the child tightly and pray that he didn't wiggle out of her grasp and fall to his death while trying to rescue him. The amount of courage and trust during harsh times in New Orleans only better helped the people who live here accept others in all types of ways.
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