Archive for February, 2006
Sharon Hanshaw: "The water stage is over."
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN1198.JPG, originally uploaded by BenTG. Sharon Hanshaw, age fifty-one, has lived in Biloxi most of her life. Before Katrina she was in a rental unit, which adjoined her cosmetology business, on Bayview Ave, the ...Read more.
Local Photo Exhibit of Images from the Gulf Coast
While I was in Gulfport, MS, I had the pleasure of meeting photographer and activist, Lolita Parker, Jr., who is from Boston and has, since October, been spending 13 days per month in Gulfport, taking photographs and assisting Derrick Evans with Turkey Creek Community Initiatives. Lolita has an exhibition of her photos from the Gulf, ...Read more.
Shone (II): "He was like, no, I can't see it, I don't have time."
Shone’s terrible experience did not end when the water receded from her mother’s house. This part of her story picks up later in the day on August 29, 2005, after Hurricane Katrina had died down: We sat in the livin’ room for a while. We was like, nobody’s gonna be able to move around until ...Read more.
Shone (I): "The wind was blowin' so hard, we thought those kids was gonna get blowed out the attic."
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN1117, originally uploaded by BenTG. I interviewed Shone in her East Biloxi apartment on Elmira Dr, which had some relatively minor water damage during Katrina. During the hurricane, however, Shone was at her mother’s ...Read more.
Nothing like this has ever happened in America
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN0863.JPG, originally uploaded by BenTG. Carland Baker, Sr. on the site of his former townhouse, Longwood Apartments, 2012 2nd St, Long Beach, MS. “Nothing like this has ever happened in America. I mean, to ...Read more.
