thomas and bridget digby lives in an area known as the back of town. it's back in here and it was a low-rent district because it flooded tall time. it was a place where people of different races and immigrant backgrounds all lived on to have of one another, and it is here that on a summer evening in 1870, the digby children are playing out in the street and a neighboring teenager is watching them and two african-american women come by and coo over mollie digby, the child. and the teenager allowed the women to hold the baby. and she goes down the block to look at a fire down the street and the women left the child. particularly in a poor neighborhood, this would have ended up on the second or third page of the paper. it would have disappeared into the mist until it gets entangled in the fearsome application of reconstruction. this is where that neighborhood is today. the digby's street, the old howard street is actually the street you walk down as you approach the superdome. the whole neighborhood torn down and urban redevelopment plans in the 50's and