Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...

As you sow, so shall you reap . . .
New Orleans has given us geniuses from Morphy to Armstrong, brilliant music, wonderful artworks, incredible inspiration. Where else can one photograph the tomb of a voodoo queen in an above-ground city-of-the-dead style cemetery, and a giant warehouse of vibrant papier-mache and fiberglass floats (Blaine Kerr's Mardi Gras World?) What other city is tolerant enough for a ridiculously expensive antques boutique to sit next door to an indescribably raunchy strip club in its historical district? In New Orleans I got to be inches away from a genuine Talbot print (A Gallery for Fine Photography) and a leucistic (white) alligator in the Audubon Zoo. I hope New Orleans reaps as they have sown, they deserve the return of the joy they have given.
 
Robert Hobbs
 
-----Original Message-----
From: res1dvao@verizon.net
To: Michael Koch-Schulte <mkochsch@shaw.ca>; alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Sent: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:08:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...

I agree. What was that statement about?

>From: Michael Koch-Schulte <mkochsch@shaw.ca>
>Date: Wed Aug 31 17:13:58 CDT 2005
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...

>RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...Implying what? That New Orleans
somehow deserved to get hit by a hurricane. Please explain yourself.?~m -----
Original Message ----- From: Richard Corbett To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:17 PM Subject: Re: Just realized something
about New Orleans...
> What you sow, so shall you reap. ? Richard ? ----- Original Message
----- From: Sandy King To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:35 AM Subject: RE: Just realized
something about New Orleans...
> The city of New Orleans is currently being flooded to the level of Lake
Ponchitrain, which is? higher than about 80-90% of the city. The French
Quarter is in one of the highest areas of the city (but still barely above
sea level)? and will not see flood waters as deep as in other parts of the
city, some of which are now under twenty feet of water.
> The mayor of New Orleans has described the city as in "total
devastation." At this moment water is still flooding the city, and most of
the pumps are out of operation. It seems likely that it will be many days,
if not weeks, before the water will be pumped out of the city.
> Sandy
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> DEAR CHRIS,
>???? Rumors abound in the news about the condition of the French
Quarter.? Some
>say flooded, some say only a few inches of water.? Does anyone have
specific
>info on how badly it was damaged or flooded?
>????? My wife and I met the lovely people at A Gallery for Fine
Photography when
>we went to the New Orleans Jazz fest in, I think, 2003.? As a result of
my
>posting, someone on this list (was it you) told me to go there.
>???? ??????? CHEERS!
>??????? ??????? BOB
>
>?Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Lovenguth [mailto:chris@chrisportfolio.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:43 PM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Just realized something about New Orleans...
>
>Even though it doesn't compare to lives changing (I have 4 very close
>friends who are all safe and out of the city, but don't know if they can
>ever go back), lives lost or maybe soon to be lost and a whole city that
>will change forever, I just realized today that A Gallery is in the
French
>Quarter. What a vital (and I would say the most accessible to the pubic)
>collection! It sounds impersonal to worry about something like that, but
at
>the same time, what a loss if anything happens to that collection.
>
>What a loss of a cultural and important city. I personally believe New
>Orleans is more important then I think most people know since most
Americans
>really only think of drunken times in the tourist sections, but of the
many
>many places I have visited in this country, New Orleans really was rare
in
>that it had kept so much of it's own identity in times like this. I will
>miss Old New Orleans, it will be rebuilt and good might come from all
this,
>but, it will never be the same.
>
>-Chris
Received on Thu Sep 1 08:48:16 2005