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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

Items (26 total)

Submitted 2/12/10\r\n\r\nI have an odd post-Katrina story to tell. \r\n\r\nI had evacuated to South Beach, FL for Katrina for five weeks (which was surreal in and of itself) and arrived home to my apartment in the…

My partner and I lived in a house at 735 Dumaine at the corner of Durbon Street (next door to the Clover Grill, for y\'all that know that area). We were bi-city guys and also had a place in San Francisco. I had left late…

A humorous song about spending time in the French Quarter, written and performed by Phil Melancon.

\"Cafe du Monde\"

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French Quarater…

The People of the Dome\r\n9-4-05\r\nMitchel Cohen\r\n\r\nMy friend Les Evenchick, an independent Green who lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans in a 3-story walkup, reports that 90 percent of the so-called looters…

The People of the…