On this week's show, we continue our tricentennial tribute to New Orleans

with a look at brand new research in the field of archeology. We speak to

Jim Bruseth and Toni Turner, who reveal a surprising turn of events that

preceded the city's official founding. Evidently, if the French explorer La

Salle hadn't blundered in his attempt to form a colony here, we would have

been celebrating our 300th birthday 30 years ago.