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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.

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November 18, 2007 \r\n12 noon - 6:00pm\r\nOak Street at South Carrollton\r\n\r\nThe first annual New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival was held on Sunday, November 18, 2007 from noon to 6:00pm.\r\n\r\nThe festival was…

November 2007 Po-Boy…

The City Park Avenue Sandwich Shop was one of the longest surviving\r\n lunch places in the city. Located across the street from Delgado Community\r\n College, from 1931 until the mid-1990s it served traditional New\r\n…

City Park Avenue…

\r\nWe moved away from New Orleans to Chicago in 1964. Whenever we would\r\n return to see my Grandmother, the first place we had to stop was the\r\n restaurant at the foot of the bridge in Manchac and get an oyster…

Manchac, Oyster…

One of my favorite Po-Boy Shops (don\'t know if it\'s still here) is/was\r\n Adams Street Grocery. The other, now defunct, po-boy shop I liked was\r\n Street Car Sandwiches on S.Carrollton Avenue. These shops some of…

Adams Street Grocery

When Katrina Hit New Orleans it was a shock for everybody. When my family left we thought it was everybody, but it wasn\'t. When the people called my aunt we didn\'t know what was going on. When my aunt got off the phone…

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Public housing crisis in New Orleans

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For a long time we didn\'t have electricity with which to charge our batteries for our cameras and the stores were not opened for us to purchase new ones so we had to use a disposable camera that we had with us, so these…

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me and my family was in the storm when katrina hit new orleans we lost the house that we had. so the next day they said we had to move out of new orleans me and my family drove 8 hours to texas when we…

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A report on home health care following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that was subsequently published in the journal Home Health Care Management and Practice. The author is Stan Weeber, Associate Professor of Sociology at…

Home Health Care…

The Truth Be Told:A Collection of Misinformed Emails About Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans\r\n\r\nTim Ory created the attached project while enrolled in the online Creating a Katrina Archive course taught during the…

The Truth Be Told:…

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