Contractors erect roof for Exhibit Hall at Levee Education Park at 5000 Warrington Drive New Orleans.
WHEN: Sat July 11 from 10-10:30a
WHERE: 5000 Warrington Drive, site of levee breach in Filmore Gardens, New Orleans
WHO: Levees.org in partnership with the neighborhood residents, Growing Green, the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority and Parkway Partners.
Come see the 100-foot long covered Hall that houses six 8′ X 3′ foot brightly colored exhibit boards. The text and forty large photographs tell the story and bust the myths of the flooding during Katrina.
Our 20 X 30 foot tent will keep you dry if it rains and cool if it’s sunny.
The exhibit hall will be a memorial to the trauma of the Flood, a commemoration of a pivotal moment in American history, and a symbol of the residents’ resilience and determination to return home. The garden uses native plants which helps to manage stormwater onsite and to reduce the load on the municipal drainage system.
The park is built and maintained with private funding. If you would like to contribute, click here.
Tha vacant tract of land across from the garden memorial was once the site of a “Garden Apartments,” complex, a type of apartment complexes popular in the 1950s and 60s. (Larger but simmilar were the Parkchester Apts.) My mother lived there briefly. It may have been called the Mirabeau Apartments. The land had been vacant long before Katrina and was used as camping space for Mexican workers after Katrina. The Mayor’s words in today’s Advocate shows we are still grateful to them.