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May 18, 2010

New Orleans, Then and Now | PBS

A lot has changed since Storm That Drowned A City premiered, just five months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. A lot has changed--and then again, a lot hasn't. Find out what new structural safeguards are protecting the region and whether New Orleans will be ready for the next hurricane season...

Judge asked to stop New Orleans hospital projects | Forbes.com

The hospital expansions into the Lower Mid-City district, where structures date back to the 1800s, are a flash-point in post-Katrina New Orleans. Preservationists say the construction of two hospitals to replace ones damaged by Hurricane Katrina would wipe out a historic New Orleans neighborhood, and they want a federal judge to block the projects…

New Orleans' venerable Jazz Joints at risk | USATODAY.com

The New Orleans-based Preservation Resource Center raises money to renovate the homes of former jazz musicians and sell them to private owners but after Katrina, that program which relies on city funding dropped down on the list of city priorities, as the city focused on rebuilding neighborhoods and returning residents to their homes …

High Water at New Orleans; (historical: 1893) River Reaches a Point Never Before Touched... nytimes.com | The New York Times

River Reaches a Point Never Before Touched-Subsiding Now.
[June 21, 1893]
The river yesterday reached the highest known mark at this place, but by noon today the gaguge registered a fall of two inches. The fine weather, compared to the rain and wind of the day before, may have had something to do with this, but it is generally accepted as bearing out the prediction of the chiefs of the United States and State Engineer Bureaus here, who claimed that the highest point had been reached by the river and that unless there should be a succession of storms the water would steadily decline and that the greater danger was past.

Indians will abandon ancestral home in La. swamps | LSU Reveille - Daily Reveille

After 170 years fishing and crabbing in the swamps of south Louisiana, the Isle de de Jean Charles Band of Boloxi-Chitimacha-Choctow has decided to move away from its ancestral island home and start a new life as a community behind levees.

The growth of New Orleans | New Orleans Magazine | myNewOrleans.com

Greater New Orleans, because of its low-lying location, developed as a tight urban area. The original town clung at first to its limited high ridges such as those along the Mississippi River as well as the Esplanade, Metairie and Gentilly ridges. It later spread outward within a confined network of levees and pumps.

Audubon Park history is subject of Cabildo lecture | NOLA.com

Jennifer Zdon / The Times-Picayune
Audubon Park will be the topic of a free lecture Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Cabildo.

Bayou Manchac declared historic | newsday

Bayou Manchac is now Louisiana's second historic waterway. State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham made the designation official last weekend.

New Orleans celebrates Edgar Degas' 175th birthday | wwltv.com

This weekend, New Orleans marks the 175th birthday of a French impressionist artist Edgar Degas who lived in New Orleans and created some of his most famous works here.

New Orleans Canal Street Not Like the Old Days | WGNO

A jem of a shopping district with family-owned department stores, doctor's offices and New Orleans pride. It's how Mary-Beth Romig of the New Orleans Convention and Visitor's Bureau remembers Canal Street...

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