N.O. Road Trip IV
One last comment. The thing that surprised me most about New Orleans post-Storm was the people. Everyone seemed to have a sad story that they were tired of telling. But they seemed keen to getting on with their lives, in spite of the cruelty of nature, the government and the insurance companies. The mood wasn't so much upbeat as unified. I even detected better race relations than I have ever noticed, but perhaps this is just time passing. All the same, the people who are in New Orleans today seem to really want to be there and are willing to work to improve things. And let's be frank: New Orleans was not going anywhere before the Storm. Today it has a chance to (eventually) prosper, and on its own terms. The only rough spot seems to be political leadership, or a lack thereof. Perhaps some things won't change so easily.
posted by Dr. Steven Morphy-Godchaux III at
4:58 PM
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I was in NO in April (in time for the opening day of Jazzfest) and it seemed to me that the tourists were interested as much in the effects of Katrina as they were in the city for all of its other attractions. We saw people in tour vans driving around Lakeview, and you could hear them talking about it everywhere you went. Hopefully NO won’t just become the city where Katrina happened in a lot of people’s minds. Hopefully, they will realize that it was a place worth visiting before Katrina hit and still is despite it.
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Murphy "Mac" Morphy, at Wed Jun 27, 09:25:00 PM CDT
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