New Orleans: December 2007
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It's a Merry Christmas in the Quarter...
Check out my feature story on New Orleans in the July/August 2008 issue of CBS Watch.
But the struggle to recover continues in other parts of town.
On the remaining section of fence outside a destroyed TV repair shop in the Lower
Ninth Ward, someone has constructed a symbol of hope: the city's fleur-de-lys
symbol, made up of individual clear plastic bottles filled with colored water.
Ninth Ward, someone has constructed a symbol of hope: the city's fleur-de-lys
symbol, made up of individual clear plastic bottles filled with colored water.
Unlike in the Lower Ninth, the more
middle-class neighborhood of Lakeview
showed some signs of progress.
middle-class neighborhood of Lakeview
showed some signs of progress.
Brad Pitt-by-way-of-Christo: the actor's Make It Right organization begins its building
program by wrapping house-shaped metal skeletons in hot pink fabric "because it
shouts the loudest." I kept calling this part of the Lower Ninth "Brad Pitt City."
program by wrapping house-shaped metal skeletons in hot pink fabric "because it
shouts the loudest." I kept calling this part of the Lower Ninth "Brad Pitt City."
Photographer Erica Berger and me. This is one of the more in-tact houses in the
Lower Ninth. Many have clothes, furniture, etc. spilling out of their many holes.
(Photo by Erica Berger)
Lower Ninth. Many have clothes, furniture, etc. spilling out of their many holes.
(Photo by Erica Berger)
New Orleans: Roosters Gone Wild
(Photo by Erica Berger)
