SICK NOTES
Sick Notes: Letters from the Epidemic is here- www.sicknotes.org
Over the past few years Goat in the Road has been creating immersive, history-based shows about 19th century New Orleans. We are thrilled to be presenting a new, unique digital experience that combines filmmaking, historical fiction, and performance in order to explore the 1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic.
Digital visitors can explore the website, following different characters through their journey of the outbreak. Each character represents a different piece of 19th century New Orleans: Adeline, who runs a boarding house; Joe, her partner; Eleanor, the milliner downstairs; Moss, the conman; Caolfhoinn, the Irish domestic; and Carlota, a Cuban woman headed back to her country of origin.
Many thanks to Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation for their support.