Website and Audio Memorial

To Kick Off the Memorial Component of our class blog, I'm going to provide a few links that may be useful for article ideas, but are also powerful testimonies from people about the storm.

The first is a website entitled Alive in Truth which is "an all-volunteer, grassroots effort to record oral and written history about the lives of displaced New Orleanians, in their own words.
The project is founded and coordinated by New Orleans native Abe Louise Young, a nationally-awarded poet." It seems like this website is collecting stories primarily from those evacuees who were in the Superdome, Convention Center, or rescued from their homes, but they are open to all testimonies and encourage people to submit their own stories and/or collect oral histories and post them on the website.

Secondly, This American Life, an audio narrative program on NPR, hosted by Ira Shor, did two fantastic shows on Katrina. Episode 296 is called After the Flood and Episode 297 is named This is Not My Beautiful House. They are both well worth listening to in their entirety as they offer a variety of testimonials from people affected by Katrina. You can buy and/or download them for a fee or listen for free with RealPlayer or ITunes.