Beyond Bourbon Street, an Insider's Guide to New Orleans

They Called Us River Rats


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Today's episode is all about the people who live and have lived along the sliver of land between the levee and the Mississippi River called the batture.

To help me explore this culture I've enlisted the help of Macon Fry, author of the book They Called Us River Rats, and himself an inhabitant of the batture.

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Beyond Bourbon Street, an Insider's Guide to New OrleansBy Mark Bologna

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