The Mythical Month of January in New Orleans

On NPR -- The Mythical Month of January in New Orleans:

Michael Depp has been back home in New Orleans for a few weeks. He says that whenever a few residents get together to talk, they inevitably bring up the month of January...

January. It is all we talk about in New Orleans -- a word we return to in every conversation that we have. January. For us, January promises one simple and solitary fact: some schools and universities will reopen. But we have pinned so much more on January.

Via lesbontemps at "The Second Line Continues."