LOCATION: Metairie Cemetery, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans, La. 70124 * Race day activities held in parking lot behind the funeral home Parking: Use the Large parking lot on side of funeral ...

Metairie Cemetery is a massive garden of stone and solitude where Anne Rice, Louis Prima, Tom Benson and 9,000 others sleep in their eternal rest. With its stately live oaks, statuary, memorials to ...

NEW ORLEANS — The pet cemetery, Heaven’s Pets, at Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery suffered damage to their building when a fire erupted early Sunday morning. New Orleans Fire Department crews were on the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — On Sunday, May 19, you ...

Chuck George has a lot of interesting stories to tell from his four decades of producing local road races. But one of the funniest dates to the first year he teamed with the Save Our Cemeteries ...

As I reflect on my 73 years as a native New Orleanian, I often think of the connection between two special bookends in my life. In high school, I enjoyed my first job working the amusement rides in ...

NEW ORLEANS — Hauntingly beautiful and often misunderstood, New Orleans’ historic cemeteries have mesmerized generations of people. Even with all the stories, art, and legends that have come from them ...