-

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

Waiting to again Rest In Peace...

Above-ground cemetery vaults and caskets sit displaced on a paved church parking lot, with a brick building and cross-marked graves visible in the background under a cloudy sky.

Graves sit in a church parking lot waiting to be restored to their original resting place almost one year after hurricane Rita struck south-west louisiana.

6ws
Louisiana
Rita
d70
d70s
grave
hurricane
mouton cove
nikon
one year later
theall
vermilion

Citation

“Waiting to again Rest In Peace...,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/27350.

Waiting to again Rest In Peace...

Citation

Geolocation