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Packing the van...JOYFULLY!!! Alex brightening the van packing with her contagious smile!
Rick is ready to get on the road!!! Hillary and Solvejg anticipating a great trip!
Carolyn and Tawnee gather supplies to take on the trip! Au revoir to Rick, Tim and the van...see you in New Orleans!
The ReWrite New Orleans group ready to go! Praying before the trip...our prayers are with you!
We spoke today with this gentleman, Peter Badie, at his Habitat House in the Musicians’ Rainbow Village. He had so much to tell us – about the storm
(and especially about the flood), about being in WWII, about all the musicians he has played with, from Dizzy Gillespie to Lionel Hampton, stories about
Branford Marsalis and Aaron Neville, and about still playing his bass in the French Quarter. If we didn’t have to get back so many of our group could get to the
school for their afternoon classes with the 3rd to 5th graders, we could have talked with him much longer. HOWARD MOSS
What a nice, reserved group from New Wilmington. Or not!
Thumbs up means the week is going well...right? Pastor Cliff Nunn of First Presbyterian Church explains the new hydraulic gate system where the 17th Street Canal flows from Lake Pontchartrain. This was a new addition after Katrina to close off the water flow from Lake Pontchartrain to the 17th Street Canal and to pump water from the canal back into the lake.
Photos and friendship at Lake Pontchartrain. Standing on the Levee at Lake Pontchartrain.
Visiting the (models of) pink houses that represent the houses that Brad Pitt and View of our team through window opening of Tonti Street
Angelina Jolie are donating money and raising additional money to develop in the
Lower Ninth Ward, a very poor area that was devastated by 8-10 ft. of flooding after
breaching of the Industrial Canal.
Lauren Meyer throwing brick through window as she clears debris. John Zahniser & Rick Hoppe Lisa Hickman & Bjorn Wastvedt outside Tonti Street house