Comments on: Post-Katrina Angels http://storyconnection.net/blog/2008/02/19/post-katrina-angels/ Connecting with Author & Award-Winning Storyteller Dianne de Las Casas Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:25:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mary Ellen Courville http://storyconnection.net/blog/2008/02/19/post-katrina-angels/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Mary Ellen Courville Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:53:51 +0000 http://storyconnection.net/blog/2008/02/19/post-katrina-angels/#comment-18 Dianne, I live, write and teach in Baton Rouge. One of my colleagues moved to my school after Katrina wiped out her home in St. Bernard. Last May we took a group of 60 eighth graders into that area to help with service and clean up. My crew worked in the 9th ward. It was crazy to see military vehicles patrolling every hour. The devastation we worked in only minutes away from the rebirth of the city shocked me. Today, if you restrict your New Orleans visit to the growing areas of the city, your sense of the reality of Katrina fades. If you detour however, just a few miles away, your eyes will open to the reality that still faces so many. The hurricane inspired me to write a Y/A novel that addresses the teenage vantage point of starting over with nothing. I am steadily revising the manuscript of it. A short story spin off of one of the characters was published earlier this year. www.writemaryellen.com Joining you in knowing some of the lives Katrina touched and reaching out... Mary Ellen Dianne,
I live, write and teach in Baton Rouge. One of my colleagues moved to my school after Katrina wiped out her home in St. Bernard. Last May we took a group of 60 eighth graders into that area to help with service and clean up. My crew worked in the 9th ward.

It was crazy to see military vehicles patrolling every hour. The devastation we worked in only minutes away from the rebirth of the city shocked me. Today, if you restrict your New Orleans visit to the growing areas of the city, your sense of the reality of Katrina fades. If you detour however, just a few miles away, your eyes will open to the reality that still faces so many.

The hurricane inspired me to write a Y/A novel that addresses the teenage vantage point of starting over with nothing. I am steadily revising the manuscript of it. A short story spin off of one of the characters was published earlier this year. http://www.writemaryellen.com

Joining you in knowing some of the lives Katrina touched and reaching out…

Mary Ellen

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