New Orleans Thinking about Walter Zumpe and life a million years ago before time, took me back to the old, Gentilly neighborhood where I lived in junior and senior high school in New Orleans. I stood in front of the now quiet, desolate block and took a couple of pictures of the Zumpe house with a …
Category: Personal Writings
Close to Home
New Orleans We were raised in a neighborhood in Gentilly called Oak Park for no especially good reason. When my dad’s company transferred us from an old field in Irvine, Kentucky to New Orleans, we first lived on the West Bank, but then we became one of the first families to open up this area, filled …
Baby Steps
New Orleans We are now ten (10) weeks past the hurricane. Progress in the restoration of the city though can only be measured in baby steps. At least half of the city still has no water and power throughout mid-city, the east, the 9th ward, the 8th ward, Lakeview, and Gentilly. This weekend more people were …