Photo/Cheryl Gerber
is a converting flooded residence – steps away from the London Avenue Canal breach site – into an educational memorial.
The museum quality plaques installed on the front columns of the in situ house?will tell the chronological story, starting with the day before the levees broke.
Like a diorama, the final exhibit will be visible through the windows.
The Flooded House Museum is a unique project that required a special permit from the New Orleans City Planning Commission.
In 2016, purchased the gutted house and – in partnership with the neighborhood residents –obtained the special permit.
Volunteer contractors installed walls, a doorway and a foyer to give dimension to the flooded remains. Then, volunteer artists staged the room using donated furniture, fixtures and items from dozens of supporters.
Ten years ago, unmasked the Corps of Engineers online attack campaign
A former federal prosecutor who worked for US Attorney Jim Letten was recently disbarred for comments he made online using an alias in New Orleans.
Sal Perricone’s comments on the Times-Picayune newspaper’s website, NOLA.com resulted in Letten’s resignation and several new trials.
Times have changed. Ten years ago, this exact sort of behavior resulted in a wrist slap.
After Hurricane Katrina, multiple people with the Army Corps of Engineers engaged in the same behavior as Mr. Perricone did.
Specifically, corps personnel – persons in a position of public trust -– were disguising their identities, pretending to be objective onlookers and using NOLA.com’s user-engagement features to viciously attack anyone who criticized the corps.
One of their targets was me and the grassroots group which I founded with my fifteen year old son after the levees broke.