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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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.

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Katrina Ate My Sex Toys: From my journal. Written January 2006, 5 months after Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina ate my sex toys. It seemed like a good idea to store them in a fabric-covered hat box beneath my bed. Discreet…

Katrina Ate My Sex…

On August 29, 2005, Katrina struck New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf Coast. The result was an unbelievable - though foreseeable - disaster for the humans living there, with a death toll over 1700 and tens of thousands of…

The destruction…

From inside of the building looking through what used to be a room of the Bar Pilot\'s station at Pilottown, LA. Photo by Michael Dingler

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Again, the main pilot station for the Bar Pilots in Pilottown, Louisiana. Photo by Michael J. Dingler

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it was very teriable

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HEY,MY NAME IS BIANCA AND IM FROM NEW ORLEANS OUT THE 8TH WARD AND MY LIFE IS NO DIFFERT BECAUSE IM NOT IN MY HOME TOWN AND IM IN TX AND I HATE TX WIT A PASSION.AND I REALLY WANT GO BACK TO N.O AND EVERY DAY I THINK OF…

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Audio file: Cecile Robin talks about Christmas in St. Bernard Parish.

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Audio File: Isabelle McCormick talks about the wooden shoes.

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Audio files: Irvan Perez sings Decimas in English and Spanish.\r\n\r\nIrvan Perez: a singer who specializes in Decimas songs, traditional songs from the Isleno/Spanish people which were impromptu and based on local…

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Acting Superintendent of New Orleans Public Schools addresses staff at the beginning of the 06/07 school year

Superintendent\'s…

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