Category Archives: katrina
A Howling in the Wires
Last month’s Poets and Writers had a neat little article about the state of writing in post-Katrina New Orleans (including a shout-out from fellow Franklin alum Brad Richard about Do You Know What It Means). My writing “career” (shee-it, careers pay money) didn’t start til Katrina, but this quote from John Biguenet’s essay “The What [...]
“This is our Katrina”…in Connecticut?
Wall Street Journal on millionaire haven Greenwich, CT: Greenwich, Connecticut is a rich enclave of hedge fund managers- and thus is feeling the pain of the current financial crisis like a ton of bricks. Ned Lamont, a Greenwich resident who ran for Senate in 2006, says, ‘This is our Katrina.’ … First Selectman Peter Tesei [...]
Something I needed this month
The weekend after Ashley died, one of my oldest friends Dr. Sarah came in town for a visit, and I took her down to see the Lower Ninth Ward since she hadn’t been here since the storm. We drove past a few houses I’d gutted before, and saw the usual lack of progress. We drove [...]
All I want for Christmas…
…all anybody wants for Christmas, is Home. Santa, bring everybody home.
I missed Bastogne
I appreciate all the kind words, folks. I’m OK. That post was done right after I got home from taking the pictures so I was feeling pretty crappy. I didn’t mean for it to be a big pity party for myself. Lisa, your Oskar Schindler comment cracked me up. I talked to Karen on the [...]
Mrs. Cora Foster’s house is gone
I’ve blogged about gutting Mrs. Cora’s house. I’ve blogged about driving by it a year later seeing it slowly decay. And I’ve blogged about thinking about trying one more time to get into her house and see if we can salvage some important and historic family heirlooms. And now it’s all gone. And of course [...]
Mrs. Cora Foster’s house
Mrs. Cora Foster’s house, slow-mo demolition in progress. August 2006, right after salvaging some family heirlooms and giving up on gutting halfway through due to the structural unsoundness: October 2007, I drove by to see what it looked like. Of all the houses I’ve done, this was one of the special ones because of the [...]
Wreck this house: the happier side
There are some signs of hope in gutting land. I think Road Home money is hitting enough people that things are slowly creaking to life. I talked to Shannon (ex-AWK, now at Common Ground) and she sees the same in the Lower Nine. And when things start happening, they seem to happen in clusters. Case [...]
My life in the bush of ghosts
I don’t know if Cora Foster’s house has been torn down yet, but I know that Karen saw Mrs. Cora’s daughter getting the demo permit approved a few weeks back, and Karen said it was obviously a painful moment for them. The feelings I got from seeing the house and neighborhood in the state they [...]
A country road. A tree. Evening.
Paul Chan is presenting “Waiting for Godot”, starring Wendell Pierce and J. Kyle Manzay, premiering last weekend at a streetcorner in a neighborhood of empty lots in the the Lower 9, and continuing this weekend in the front yard of a gutted house in Gentilly. Admission is free, but arrive an hour early if you [...]
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