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The Louisiana State Capitol and Mall.
Tomb/ statue/ Stalinist monument to the Louisiana Kingfish. I called my grandmother from here, hoping to impress her with the history. "You know, honey," she said as her voice suddenly became serious, "Huey Long was a kind of dictator."
Right on, Granny. Huey's imposing tombstone reminded me of Dan Berrigan describing the Duke Ellington statue at 5th Avenue and Central Park North (Dan trudged with me in the snow around the Harlem Meer just to point it out). "Flown in from Soviet Russia as a token of goodwill and bad taste," he said with delighted contempt.
The view over a few barges and the Mississippi. Red stick, red sunset.