OT RIP thread for Dr. Michael Mizell-Nelson NOLA PoBoy/Streetcar Historian

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Mizell-Nelson also was co-director for neworleanshistorical.org, a Web and mobile platform for sharing stories about New Orleans.

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This was typical of the way Dr. Mizell-Nelson operated, his wife said. "He liked to point out that all the cultural productions of New Orleans that people treasure so much were created by the lower classes, the working classes," she said. "Unlike European culture that comes from on high, (New Orleans' culture) bubbled up from below."

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