Music, Treme, & Pharmacy Museum

New Orleans is the birth place of American music. Jazz was born here, jazz is the only music that is original to America, it was conceived and born here in New Orleans. This city is constantly singing with trumpets and clarinets, the people dance down the streets instead of walking, the language is not spoken but sang through a melody of creole dialect. The city does not speak through its music it is its music the city does not exist without its music and the music does not live on without this city.
   Treme is the neighborhood that is a primarily black neighborhood. The city is rich in black and creole history. Treme is near Congo square which is still a cultural center for the city. When you walk into the square you almost hear the drums and trumpets the slaves would dance too on Sunday afternoons. This was the place were the Indians taught the first settlers to survive in this hostile country.
     We were able to visit the pharmacy museum in the heart of New Orleans. This city was home to the very first licensed pharmacist in the country. This cities long history of death and dying contributed to the development of many different medical treatments for the many different ailments the locals might have developed. Sickness was so prevalent in the New Orleans culture that it became the standard of beauty and class. People would paint their faces blue to look ill, because that was beauty. Stepping into the apothecary was like stepping back in time, the walls were lined with antique glass bottles filled with butterfly wings and leeches among other exotic and obsolete medical cures.
    This day was a look at the history of this wondrous city. While walking through the French quarter it feels as if the city is stuck in time. The culture is so well preserved that it would not feel out of place to see a woman in a fine civil war Era dress strolling down the street.