Dixie By The Sea
In the olden days Long Beach was known as Iowa By The Sea due to the immigrants that traveled in droves from that midwestern state to make a new home for themselves in our fair city.
More recently, a case could be made for New Orleans to bestow adoptive sister city status upon us with the plethora of Cajun-style festivals we host each year.
Long Beach Lobster Festival, Long Beach Cajun Festival, Long Beach Bayou and Blues Festival, Long Beach Mardi Gras and, this past weekend, the Long Beach Crawfish Festival.
Each of these events offer a taste of New Orleans from the food (Po’ Boys, Beignets, Jambalaya) to the music (Blues, Jazz, Creole, Zydeco), the pomp and pageantry of the parades and the slingin’ beads caught and collected under the chins of the smiling, happy faces that turn out, like Pavlov’s dog, at the stroke of a frottoir.
As Nouveau Orleans we offer a traveling circuit bringing us the best of the Big Easy without the oppressive heat, hurricanes, contaminated wat… err… scratch that last one, I guess.
But, there are no bitey alligators living in our swamp.
