Levees.org logs 900,000 visitors to its website
Today, the Levees.org website logged its 900,000th visitor. Nine hundred thousand times, folks have visited Levees.org’s website since its launch in 2005. Lots of folks wanted to understand why the levees failed in the New Orleans region during Hurricane Katrina. When Stanford Rosenthal, the founder’s son, created the site at the age of fifteen, no […]
Plaque Unveiling Ceremony in Lower Ninth Ward
On Monday, August 24, 2015, we unveiled our third historic plaque, this time in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. Guests Pastor Brandon Haynes, Fairview Baptist Church, Pastor Charles Duplessis, Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church, Rev Willie Calhoun, Lower Ninth Ward Coalition, Robert Green, lifelong Lower Ninth Ward resident, Ms. Kim Ford, Lower […]
Plaque Unveiling Ceremony Featured on NPR’s Morning Edition
On Monday, August 24, 2015, we unveiled our third historic plaque, this time in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood. NPR featured our plaque unveiling ceremony in a wonderful story on the national Morning Edition news program. A Levees.org supporter texted me from Boise today to tell me that while she was in the tire shop, […]
