Make it Right New Orleans Driving through the Lower 9th Ward and the overwhelming scenes of both desolation and hope, we found ourselves gawking at these huge houses towering over the grassy and vacant fields in the areas close to the new concrete wall that replaced the Industrial Canal levee. My son was particularly …
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Prospect 1 in the Lower 9th
Prospect 1 in the Lower 9th November 28, 2008 New Orleans I don’t claim to be any kind of big art guy, but I am a big “anything that’s good for the Lower 9th in New Orleans is good for me” guy, and, as we all say, I know what I like. And, I …
Mumbai Thanksgiving
Mumbai Thanksgiving November 27, 2008 New Orleans In the late afternoon before Thanksgiving Prachee Sinha of the ACORN International staff and I were riveted to the Times of India website for news of the terrorist attacks throughout Mumbai. Prachee was raised in Luchow and came over to work with me from Delhi, first training …