"The old neighborhood and house touch me the most in this Katrina malaise of tragedy.  It’s a personal thing going back to my days as a child and youth in the “Irish Channel”, French Quarter and other older parts of the city.

     The chairs were on the porch as if in a last conversation, much as my Grandmother often had done.  I added the mattress, a ubiquitous object after the storm."            Rolland Golden