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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.

Items tagged “Oak Tree” (1 total)

A man stands dwarfed beneath the massive upturned root ball of a large uprooted oak tree, its tangled roots and bare branches towering above him amid scattered debris.

We live - yes are still here - in Gentilly. This is what used to be our 60 year old oak…