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It stands at the intersection of the past and the future. This plantation house on the Mississippi River outside of New Orleans is one of the few remaining bastions of a way of life. One by one the grande dames of the river disappear, the victims of time. Every year or two we hear of another that is gone forever - Tuzcuco, Laura, Elmwood - the flames take them, and another jewel is lost to the next generations. How will our children know where they come from?