There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one
New Orleans.
Home to the Chitimacha tribe. Main settlement of the French Mississippi Company. Colony of the Spanish Empire. American territory. Home of the Sugar Plantation. Wealthiest city in the Old South. Main port of the Slave Trade. Destination for Carribbean refugees. Home of Jazz and the Blues. Land of Voodoo. Mardi Gras Central. The place where they film those Girls Gone Wild videos. Victim of Katrina. Home to the Crescent City Institute of Magic.
CCI opened its doors in the years immediately prior to the Civil War, when New Orleans was at its height. Just as the city and the country have gone through massive upheaval and change in the 160 years since it opened, so has the school itself. From the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the racial tensions of the Civil Rights Movement, to the chaos of Hurricane Katrina, the ongoing challenge for the staff and students of CCI seems to be adapting to change.
And there is change in store for this year. Strange things have been glimpsed in the shadows as students return for the new school year. Strangers have come to the city, and their intentions are unknown. Barely-remembered enemies rise to prominence once again.
As the old-timers deep in the Bayous tell us, “Laissez les bons temps rouler”.
Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun
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