This week in "Sunday Morning" (May 18): Design - A Weekend in New Orleans

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Cover Story: Welcome to New Orleans
In the 1930s, playwright and New Orleans resident Tennessee Williams was said to have regarded the city as the top three in the United States. "Everywhere else is Cleveland," he said. New Orleans is known as the booming hub of art, culture and food, and is facing challenges - fires, wars, diseases, hurricanes, and more recently terrorist attacks. Correspondent Lee Cowan illuminates the city’s long history and the resilience of the people who live there.

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Architecture: Longue Vue House
Host Jane Pauley visited Longue Vue House, a 20th-century manor and architectural masterpiece designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman.

Brand new you: Can you redesign your personality?
For years, journalist Olga Khazan hated most of his personality. So, despite the general belief that character traits are constant once a person reaches a certain age, Khazan starts to change her traits. Correspondent Susan Spencer explores the field of personality science and hears the voice of a professor at the University of Kentucky whose research in the field may be a game-changing game for mental health therapy.

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Flower Power: Ancient Art of Thunder Lake in Hawaii
Hawaii is famous for its Lei production, an ancient tradition that is still popular on the island today. However, as flower farms disappear, the future of the process could be in danger due to climate change, with the remaining land overheating. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti sat down with Hawaiian Meleana Estes, who learned the art of leisure from his grandmother. He also participated in this year's annual Lei Day Festival, held annually in Waikiki since 1929, and met with Andrew Mau, the founder of Island Boy, what Reii might be.

Do it easily: the historic iron of the French Quarter and the craftsmen who kept it alive
A city known for its hundreds of years of iron needs an expert that can make it look like a new one. Correspondent Michelle Miller, the first lady of New Orleans, is a guide to some of our most iconic designs. She met with Darryl Reeves, who was just one of the few recovery blacksmiths working in New Orleans, where antiques survived in the French Quarter.

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Design outside: Outdoor life continues to flourish since the Covid-19 pandemic
U.S. backyards have evolved greatly throughout history. Even if the pandemic forces people to spend more time outside, outdoor living space has become a booming business, with about $10 billion a year. Correspondent David Pogue talks about trends with "House Beautiful" editor Joanna Saltz and visits a house with Justin Fox, co-founder of Foxterra Design to learn how some people do interior design outside.

Hide and seek: Secret passage to history
Correspondent Nancy Giles searched for hidden rooms and found some of them in the most unexpected places. Giles talks with Steven Humble, the founder of the Founding Home Project, which specializes in secret access doors and high-security panic rooms. She also heard Tucholke, who studied hidden spaces and said the phenomenon of secret rooms dates back centuries.

Beyond Gumbo: How Childhood Meals Inspire Two Chefs’ Famous Menu
New Orleans is known for its music, carnivals, and especially food. Correspondent Mo Rocca visited with two award-winning chefs who created extraordinary menus by returning to their childhood culinary and cultural memories. Rocca talks with Nina Compton and her husband Larry Miller about St. Lucia’s influence on Compere Lapin cooking and brings Senegalese flavors to chef Serigne Mbaye and his business partner Dr. Effie Richardson with Dakar Nola’s Senegalese flavor.

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Style: New Orleans transit officials say trams are an integral part of the city’s identity - which is why
By the 1960s, New Orleans replaced nearly all of its trams with buses. But some people continue to buzz. New Orleans Transportation Authority CEO Lona Edwards Hankins told correspondent Michelle Miller that it also retained some originals as the city reintroduces contemporary trams in recent decades. Anthony Maggio, an experienced mechanic, shares how he and a team of craftsmen make them run.

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No place like home: Christian Bale’s mission is to put raising siblings together
Actor Christian Bale has earned praise for his titular performance in the franchise of "Batman", and now his mission is to help kids who can use real-life superheroes. Bale is helping to establish California, a foster care family designed to prevent isolated siblings from being separated. He talked with correspondent Tracy Smith about his inspiration for the project.

Italy: Prehistoric Houses in Puglia
Correspondent Seth Doane heads to southern Italy to see its magical peak Tralee house.

Suitable: For many people, the Casena set is a New Orleans staple
The Southern gentlemen learned about the beauty and coolness of the kimchi suits and their connection to New Orleans. Louisianan correspondent Jamie Wax takes audiences through the city’s tailor side – from historic men’s clothing stores to iconic suit makers and finally to fashionable parties in New Orleans.

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Heart and the Only: 40 Years of Air Jordan
Air Jordan sneakers are 40 years old this year. "Sunday Morning" celebrated the design of the iconic shoe with journalist Luke Burbank, who traced its origins back to the first meeting between NBA legend Michael Jordan and Nike, then a relatively small sneaker company in Oregon.

Cultural Celebration: "The Beads of New Orleans" pays tribute to the history of the Carnival with his art
In Michelle Miller's final discussion of the pillars of New Orleans style this week, journalists delve into centuries of black masking tradition. The works of acclaimed contemporary artist Demond Melancon are on display around the world, but it is deeply rooted in the elaborate beaded costumes he created, becoming the young Seminole Hunters Black Black Masking Tribe.

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Nature: The Black-bellied Whistling Duck in New Orleans
This Sunday morning we left behind black-bellied whistle ducks basking in the sun in Oddon Park in New Orleans, Louisiana.


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