Reggie Dawes
New Orleans Tour Guide and former Buggy Driver
504-322-4703
504-322-4703
EXPERIENCE
October 2008 - May 2009
Royal Carriages. I worked day shifts, 10 days every two weeks. Mule driver of a vis-à-vis carriage, giving narrated tours of the French Quarter: history, culture, architecture, and cuisine.
Spring 2002 - current
Friends of the Cabildo. Walking tours as a volunteer, once or twice monthly. I do impersonations of the historical characters, including Governor Claiborne and Père Antoine at fund-raising events. I have given commercial walking tours of the Quarter and St. Louis #1 cemetery for several tour operators.
EDUCATION
Delgado Community College, 2001
Semester-long New Orleans tour guide class, walking and bus tours of the French Quarter, Garden District, the city, and River Road plantation tours.
Friends Of The Cabildo, 2002
Month-long immersion course teaches history for walking tour guides of the French Quarter. Staff volunteers teach and drill students in tour guide skills. Lecturers are historians, authors, professional guides and experts in relevant fields. I attend many refresher courses, and mentor guides in training. I perform reenactments of historical characters at their fund-raisers.
Save Our Cemeteries, 2004
Tour guide training for our cemeteries, one weekend, and a yearly one-day updates.
Tulane Architecture Course, Spring 2008
Lectures by Robby Cangelosi, author and preeminent architectural restoration specialist.
Member of Friends of the Cabildo, Greater New Orleans Archivists, Save Our Cemeteries, and the Tour Guides Association of Greater New Orleans.
I continue to study history, mostly using Google and Wikipedia. I get help from other professional guides, educators, conservators, authors and authorities, residents and friends.
BACKGROUND
I was born and raised in New Orleans, and lived here or nearby for 40+ years. After two years in the army, I studied chemistry and biology at Loyola, earning a BS in 1957. I worked for 40 years as a chemist in government and industry in Louisiana, Michigan, Alabama, and Virginia. I have travelled widely. I designed web sites for 12 years, and have given up on that. I've been on the Web longer than Al Gore. -- see more at my personal page.
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