Your New Orleans Experts
It’s not the company, it’s the guide.
Christopher Tidmore
Over the past two decades, Christopher has visited 53 countries.
He has camped with Bedouins in the Sahara desert, ridden stallions with Indian Princes across Rajasthan, fished with locals in the Arctic sea above Norway, and narrowly missed being bombed in the London Terrorist attack of 2005.
In 2012, he drove from London to Singapore, across Central Asia’s Silk Road, and then again across the Australian Outback from Darwin to Adelaide to Sydney (and then by ferry) to Hobart, Tasmania. In 2014, he sailed down the French Canal du Midi and covered the 70th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy and Bastille Day’s 100th Anniversary of the start of World War I.
In 2019, he broadcast live from the Rock Hotel in Gibraltar and spent a month covering the impact of Brexit on not only this key outpost of the UK, but on Spain, Portugal, and Southern Europe.
Christopher has served as Communications Director and a Board Member of the Louisiana Living History Foundation. Through his efforts along with Tim Pickles and others, Christopher played a key role in staging the Bicentennial re-enactment of the Battle of New Orleans. For this purpose, he helped raise over $200,000 and obtained the lease of a piece for property to create a dedicated ‘Meraux Living History Park’. A model of the January 1815 battlefield, along with its own ‘Line Jackson’ was constructed a less than a mile from Chalmette National Battlefield, and hosted 1588 historical re-enactors on January 9-11, 2015.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Crimefighters, Inc. (Louisiana’s leading Victims Rights Organization) and continues to write a nationally syndicated column for the NNPA press association, and occasionally for the UK Guardian Newspaper. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and MSNBC’s Maddow Show as an expert political commentator.
Most recently on the historical front, he completed a memoir on retracing the steps of Lewis and Clark by boat and train, has led lecture tours by train across the west and by boat through the Great Lakes and down the historic Erie Canal on the War of 1812, has completed a series of lectures about and conducted upon the transCanadian rail system About Canadian confederation, and served as the keynote speaker at the Canadian Consulate-General-sponsored conference on the 300th Anniversary of New Orleans.
Jeffrey Holmes
The creator of Strange True, Jeffrey, is the local expert on Lee Harvey Oswald, the New Orleans mafia/organized crime, and true crime. A Katrina survivor and first responder, co-founder of the St Claude Arts District, and “tour guide to the stars”. When best-selling authors and Hollywood insiders want a tour of New Orleans,
Jeffrey has been the guide of choice. Jeffrey’s decades-long connections to the city have made him a local expert on music, food, and culture.
Speaking engagements include JFK Assassination Conference, Dallas TX. 2018, 2019, 2021. New River Inn and Museum, Ft. Lauderdale FL
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA. Sons of the American Revolution and the
Patriots and Founders of America.
Historian Jane
Historian Jane is a trained historian and researcher with a degree in Middle Ages Military History from USC. She has channeled her degree to now concentrate on New Orleans and early French history. Jane is the local expert on the history of women in New Orleans. While researching the role of women in New Orleans, she found that sex and “The World’s Oldest Profession” made a major impact on the city. Jane’s museum credentials include La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Kentucky Horse Park Museum.New River Inn and Museum Ft Lauderdale, as well as the Louisiana State Museum/ Cabildo, New Orleans
