Introducing Thelma and Lowell's Diary

Newlyweds from the Midwest begin married life in war-time New Orleans

On January 1 I will begin sharing a new diary, that of high school sweethearts Thelma and Lowell, who married and moved from the rural community of Biglick, Ohio to the bustling war-time city of New Orleans. They found an apartment in a subdivided house at 1114 Webster Street, a few blocks from beautiful Audubon Park. During 1943, when the diary opens, …