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The need for free content for the millions of web pages being released worldwide everyday is continuously increasing. The need for such free information is for using in the web pages, articles, developing web content of a particular kind, bloggers and web site developers. Free content is defined as any written functional work, or artwork of the written form, or any other creative content which has no significant legal ramifications. It is the written material which can be freely used, distributed, modified, and re-modified to be published again and again. It is different from open content because freely available content can be modified whereas the open one cannot. This written material exists in several areas of interest, such as technology, literature, music, engineering, and several other areas.

Developing Written Material Writing an article, which can be published in the public domain, requires some skills. The person who has flair to write has got the choice of either writing something which can be freely used by anyone or the one with a copyright. An author of an article can be an expert writer, or an amateur who writes just for his own pleasure, or it may also for the reading pleasure of the millions of internet visitors, and also for all those who may want to use it for commercial use such as internet marketing! Developing written material for the web and for the sake of different needs requires some basic skills. Having command over the language in which the author wants to write, the topic on which they may want to write, and the ability to upload the content on sites which admit written material of all kinds and topics, are just some of those basic needs. All one needs to do is simply be able to write a good and unique article of quality, which would be able to demonstrate one’s knowledge and the experience in that particular area. This is where the role of Article Alley comes into focus.

Plantation alley is located on the Mississippi River North of New Orleans.  On both sides of the river were large sugar cane farms (plantations down here), where the owners built beautiful mansions for themselves, while their slaves, who worked the fields, lived in shanty poverty. Many of the estates have been destroyed either by fire or the floods of “Old Man River”. Most of the existing ones have been restored and offer guided tours.

The first plantation of the West Bank was Laura. This is a Creole plantation built in 1805. The guided tours are based on the Memories of Laura Locoul, who had lived there and in the French Quarter. The tales of Br’er Rabbit were stories told in the slave quarters on this plantation and later written down for posterity.

Next is the most photographed plantation of the all, Oak Alley. Twenty-eight majestic oak trees line the entrance way to the mansion. River road passes by it and a levee has been built to control the river from flooding. The view from the river in the 1800s must have been magnificent. It is even spectacular today.  I have been told that Hurricane Katrina destroyed some of these stately oaks.