The House On First Street: My New Orleans Story - Plot & Excerpts
Not only did it have the requisite big kitchen with an enormous commercial stove (one of the very few things in the almost 6,000 square-foot house that did not need to be replaced), but for more than twenty years, from 1955 to 1977, it had been occupied by Billups Phinizy Percy and his family. Like his brothers, Walker and LeRoy, he had grown up in Greenville, the adopted son of the planter and poet William Alexander Percy. (When Shelby Foote was asked why there were so many writers from Greenville, he said, “If Will Percy had lived in Tupelo, there would have been a lot of writers in Tupelo.”) I had grown up two doors down from LeRoy, the middle brother, and taught his grandchildren in day camp. (When both my paternal grandparents were killed in car wreck when I was seventeen, LeRoy handed me a martini at eleven o’clock in the morning with the words, “I think we could all use one of these.”) And though I had visited Walker in Covington, I had all but forgotten that the youngest brother, Phin, had come to New Orleans and stayed.
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