Marc Alcide Bowman

I remember the "hippie house" that Mr. Meunier mentioned. That was back in the late 70s. I knew Mark then also. Recently, I'd call him on his birthday, today, April 25th. Disconnected. So here I am offering condolence to his survivors. Definitely a humourous guy. Also driven by curiosity about life and history. Darn it.

I met Marc while we were both working at the New Orleans Opera scenery shop. We ended up working together on carpentry jobs and he was a member of the choir I was in - the Jefferson Community Chorus - for a while. Marc was a talented artist, and was painting at the time. I remember seeing his paintings at the apartment he had in what was one of the great "hippie houses" of the time, on Esplanade Ave. I don't know if he kept it up, since I left the US many years ago, but he had the true...