Goin' home to Louisiana...
On Friday morning I'll be traveling from Boston to Louisiana for a brief four-day visit. I'll be reporting on the trip here on this blog.
The reasons for the trip are two-fold.
I'm working on a memoir of years spent in Louisiana in the Sixties. The "homecoming" trip this coming weekend will allow me to re-live an extraordinary personal transformation resulting from involvement in the civil rights movement.
It was out of my work as supervisor of a VISTA project in Baton Rouge that I discovered "the other America."
My second reason for traveling to Louisiana has to do with post-Katrina efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. I hope to talk to some locals about what they see as the big challenges that need to be addressed.
The reasons for the trip are two-fold.
I'm working on a memoir of years spent in Louisiana in the Sixties. The "homecoming" trip this coming weekend will allow me to re-live an extraordinary personal transformation resulting from involvement in the civil rights movement.
It was out of my work as supervisor of a VISTA project in Baton Rouge that I discovered "the other America."
My second reason for traveling to Louisiana has to do with post-Katrina efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. I hope to talk to some locals about what they see as the big challenges that need to be addressed.
posted by Ed Deevy at 7:08 AM
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