When Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 reopens to the public next month after seven years, visitors will be greeted by new gravel walkways and treated magnolia trees.
But what’s no longer there might surprise the mourners and family members who’ve been coming for decades.
Ghost tourists, film buffs and amateur re-enactors — all fixtures of the historic Garden District cemetery in the years leading up to its 2019 closure — will no longer haunt the grounds of New Orleans’ oldest city-owned cemetery…