The Yellow House

The Yellow HouseIn 1961, Sarah M. Brooms mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plantthe postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarahs father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarahs birth, the

and love during the baroness’ lifetime and their inflection in the New World setting of New Orleans

subdivided it

to explain how Bourbon Street became an intriguing and singular artifact

She was an elementary-school teacher for several years and an archivist at the Historic New Orleans Collection

while the overall length of 5/8" adds a touch of elegance

Sybil participated in some of the first tests for integration attempting to enroll at both Tulane and Loyola

playing a key role in the eight-year struggle to persuade PFLAG to become the first national LGBTQ+ organization to include trans people in its mission statement

First of its kind in the city

Featuring a post design and a Mexican registry mark TS-24 and a replica of an older Spralting hallmark

During her time as a volunteer in New Orleans

and dozens of interviews

becoming friends for life