I spent the morning Saturday watching all of the documentaries and specials that I had TIVOd from the past week on Hurricane Katrina. C-SPAN ran four hours of excellent coverage of a panel of authors from New Orleans on the anniversary of the storm and a February function at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where contributing photographers from the Dallas Morning News book “Eyes of the Storm.”
There are lots of recriminations about what went wrong, and what continues to go wrong, but the most moving part was the images. Kathy Anderson of the Times-Picayune presented dozens of her photographs with the song Angel by Sarah McLaughlin, which would move anyone to tears.
Then the Dallas team played a slide show backed by “Louisiana 1927” as performed by Aaron Neville. The song is about the criminal dynamiting of the levees by the Governor of Louisiana during the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927. Author John Barry told the story so hauntingly in his book “Rising Tide.” Randy Newman wrote and performed the song originally on his album Good Old Boys. The song provided an emotional and poignant backdrop to the horrible aftermath.
One year ago, after returning from the Alabama Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina, I found myself becoming sadder and sadder as the images of New Orleans and the Mississippi Coast were beamed around the world. Going back and seeing those images brought back a flood of emotion
There are lots of recriminations about what went wrong, and what continues to go wrong, but the most moving part was the images. Kathy Anderson of the Times-Picayune presented dozens of her photographs with the song Angel by Sarah McLaughlin, which would move anyone to tears.
Then the Dallas team played a slide show backed by “Louisiana 1927” as performed by Aaron Neville. The song is about the criminal dynamiting of the levees by the Governor of Louisiana during the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927. Author John Barry told the story so hauntingly in his book “Rising Tide.” Randy Newman wrote and performed the song originally on his album Good Old Boys. The song provided an emotional and poignant backdrop to the horrible aftermath.
One year ago, after returning from the Alabama Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina, I found myself becoming sadder and sadder as the images of New Orleans and the Mississippi Coast were beamed around the world. Going back and seeing those images brought back a flood of emotion