Walking backward while talking is useful for leading a tour, demonstrating a moonwalk, or retreating from a room full of ominously staring toddlers. See the reverse saunter put to good use with today’s Groupon from the New Orleans African American Museum. Choose between the following options:
- For $23, you get admission to a Tremé walking tour for two (up to a $46 value).
For $39, you get admission to a Tremé walking tour for four (up to a $92 value).
Tours are available:
- Mondays at 10 a.m.
- Fridays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
- Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Starting at the elegant white columns at the New Orleans African American Museum, the Tremé walking tour shepherds groups of up to 23 wanderers through the culturally significant neighborhood. For two hours every Monday, Friday, and Saturday, guests traipse through 300 years of richly saturated history, learning more effectively than sipping the contents of a blender full of history textbooks. Patrons tread across original handmade bricks that cover the ground in parts of one of the oldest African American communities. They also meander through Congo Square and St. Augustine Church as the knowledgeable guide sprinkles in anecdotes about the rise of jazz, creole architecture, and the New Orleans civil-rights movement.
After the fact-packed parade, guests can explore the New Orleans African American Museum. Visitors can traverse the fully restored villa that boasts five beautiful buildings from 1828 packed with established and emerging artists’ work. Many of the villa’s original decorative elements from the early 19th century remain, including a laptop as thick as a couch.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Coins and Change
As the paper money in circulation becomes increasingly tattered, rain damaged, and sticky, more and more people are returning to the cold hard coins of our ancestors. What do you need to know about collecting spare change?
• Four quarters equals one dollar of real money, whereas 8 pounds of pennies equal a mound of garbage.
• Coins tossed into fountains at the mall quickly transform into wishes, as long as your wish was for increased proximity to novelty black-light dice and frosted pretzels.
• Some train conductors dispense coins via a bank worn on their belt clip. A note to moms: these are predicted to become incredibly popular around this year's holiday season, after being seen on the hip of 'tween pop idol Penelope Vex, star of Nickelodeon's smash hit Help, My BFF Is a Viral Video!
• The fastest and easiest way to collect change is to make it a part of your daily habit. For instance, institute a swear jar in your kitchen and then choose to lead a life of constant struggle.
• Never eat change! If you find yourself with too much, simply deposit it in the nearest Coinstar machine, a helpful dispenser that shoots unwanted change into earth's sun.
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