Earth Day New Orleans
I confess. I missed Earth Day. Too preoccupied with personal matters.
I just came across this essay about Earth Day as seen through a New Orleans prism.
Click here for good reading from Cathartic Prose, another Hudson Valley based writer who visits and contributes to New Orleans rebuilding.
Interesting historic note:
Did you know that the Louisiana Purchase and the funding the invention of the steamboat, two things that made New Orleans possible, were both accomplished by the same person, a Hudson Valley resident named Robert R. Livingston, Jr?
His ancestral home is just two miles from where I live.
and help us spread the word about New Orleans
April 17th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Thanks so much for the nod in your blog
It means a lot that people are still thinking about N.O.
Stepping into St Bernard is like visiting an old friend.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:23 am
By the way, I believe Earth Day this year is April 22. I only said Happy Earth day because we were working in celebration of it and I knew it was coming soon.
So, you can still celebrate