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How Emilie Rhys Found Her Father – and Her Groove

Seeking a relationship with her estranged father – the noted New Orleans painter Noel Rockmore – a young woman travels to the Quarter in 1977 for a year of discovery. by J. Michael Warner Originally published in the French Quarter Journal, January, 2025. It’s hard to know where you’re headed if you don’t know where you’re from. So in September 1976, 20-year-old Emily Davis left her West Coast home seeking missing parts of her background. She first headed to New...