The Open Gate New Year's 1815 Author:Wilma Pitchford Hays Lucy looked forward to New Year's Day for months and months. New Year's was the gayest day of the whole year in French Louisiana, filled with parties and visits and good things to eat. But things would be different this year. The Americans' war was moving closer, and the fighting British and American troops might even enter New Orleans. She ... more »would have liked to ask the American boy next door what he thought would happen, but as soon as the Coxes had moved in, Maman had ordered the gate between the gardens to be locked......« less