On Thursday March 10, founder Sandy Rosenthal will be featured in a local television show.
The episode, which was filmed at Levees.org’s Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden, is part of a series called My Cheap Date. Rosenthal speaks with a couple at 5000 Warrington Drive in the Fillmore Gardens neighborhood of New Orleans.
The premise of the series is that “A great date doesn’t have to break the bank.” The episode can be downloaded here.
Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal will be a guest panelist at the NEW ORLEANS BOOK FESTIVAL.
Rosenthal will join Roberta Brandes Gratz, Lt. Gen Russel Honore, Andy Horowitz and Mark VanLandingham on 3/11.
Tulane University will host its inaugural weekend of the 2022 New Orleans Book Festival on March 10-12. It will be a three-day, in-person literary celebration featuring more than 100 national, regional and local authors, including some of the nation’s most beloved bestsellers. The festival is free and open to the public. A schedule of events will be released in February.
The lineup of Best-Selling Authors includes Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal for her debut book, Words Whispered in Water; Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina (Mango, 2020).
Recently, US Senator Jim Inhofe was jubilant over bringing home federal funding ––$137 million––for a levee project in his home state of Oklahoma.
Senator Inhofe is rightly happy about this news. Funding for lifesaving levees is of the utmost importance.
Exactly thirty years ago, an equally jubilant US Senator J. Bennett Johnston had just brought home $50 million from the federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers for levee improvements in New Orleans.An equally triumphant Orleans Levee Board called for a press conference to announce the news.
But what the board members didn’t know was that the US Army Corps of Engineers would proceed to build flimsy floodwalls that crumbled at half the pressure they were designed to contain when Hurricane Katrina arrived 14 years later.
