Tulane University

This guide to Tulane University in New Orleans centers on Josephine Louise Newcomb, a widow who by 1870 had buried both her children, including her daughter Sophie at just fifteen. It follows her sixteen-year search for a memorial worthy of that loss, one she found in 1886 on Tulane's uptown campus, and the string of gifts that followed over the rest of her life. You'll hear how she described her own giving and how she spent those years moving restlessly between boarding houses and hotels rather than settling down. It's a portrait of a grief that kept working long after the funerals were over.