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.

Portrait & Narrative: Overlapping Rings

Collection

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Complete text: \"There is no \'they\' here on the ground. That isn\'t a prescence here like I expected. Residents, workers, volunteers. Three overlapping rings of rebuilding, feeling edges of our humanity, courage and persistence in the same places, over the same plates of food.\"\r\n\r\n

Keywords:

food, volunteer

Files:

NoThey_2a52be194c.pdf

Citation

“Portrait & Narrative: Overlapping Rings,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed December 27, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26947.

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