With all the destruction and loss in New Orleans it was nice to see these 2 pieces of History sitting next to each other in the salvage yard.
A door from C.J.Peete and a Cupboard from the Wilson School
Hopefully they will stay here in New Orleans a find another use.
I found this tucked into one of the drawers.
Some schools will be reduced to rubble and bits and pieces there is a lot of hope that more can be saved, Francine Stock has been doing some incredible work. Last week she and Alan from thinknola went to California to present at the Net Squared Conference. They presented a strong case for the need for meaningful citizen owned recovery mapping.
A friend of mine told me that after World War Two many towns in Germany hired City employees to photograph and record every building and created a historical archive of the rebuilding. That kind of backward looking sounds so forward thinking right now.
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HammHawk // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Wow, I’m not sure if the 2nd picture is more symbolic for the word itself, or because that was a key word the kids were learning to spell. Great post.
Karen Gadbois // Jun 4, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I thought about that..fight is such a great word.
Louis Aubert // Jun 23, 2008 at 8:56 pm
The word fight is just too appropriate to be found in the midst of such tremendous waste.
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