Everything that came out of Cookie’s mouth was said with a smile on her face. “What if I said you can’t record me?” Clearly, Cookie had some experience with journalists coming to her house and asking about the situation on the island. While the words coming out of her mouth seemed unfriendly, the tone in […]
One Island Sinks as Another Grows: Birds Over People
Eastern Terrebonne Parish is disappearing, but the entirety of Terrebonne Parish besides Isle de Jean Charles is protected by the Morganza to the Gulf levee system. The land areas south of the Morganza levee system act as a buffer zone for floodwater pushed inland from the Gulf. Across the Louisiana coastline, Director of the Terrebonne […]
Nine People in the Lower Ninth Ward Rebuilding Their Community
Mercedes Gibson Mercedes Gibson, 80, could barely be heard over the men shouting at the slot machines in the corner of her bar and restaurant, Mercedes’ Place, in the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood in New Orleans. Two other men sat at the bar watching USC take on UCLA in college basketball. Her wrinkled hands […]