Kevin J Bozant

Rev. G. J. Wegener Kevin J Bozant

Recently discovered photographs, private letters, and various official documents, capture the fascinating and intricate details of life in New Orleans at the corner of Port and Burgundy Streets in Faubourg Marigny between 1887 and 1947. In "Rev. G. J. Wegener: His Life and Ministry in New Orleans," the personal recollections of Pastor Wegener, his two wives, fifteen children, and the members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, come together to create an intimate portrait of the Wegener family. Sixty years of reminiscences from the stoop of their two-story parsonage on Port Street reveal how one New Orleans family - in the face of floods, fires, yellow fever, financial hardship, the 1915 hurricane, the Great Depression, prohibition, and two world wars - is sustained by the bonds of love and faith.