http://icrapoport.com/nightmares-of-a-disaster/ Buras did indeed have a little downtown, but the shops were all boarded up or abandoned; it did have a library, however, built on stilts. Local government has apparently made the determination that future floods are to be expected. I visited at a Vietnamese coffee shop just to see it, and got a soda in […]
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The Otters of Saint Ann Empire.
13-May-14Where Even the Gravestones Are Racist.
12-May-14incorruptibly There was a battered sign by the road advertising Our Lady of Good Harbor – masses at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sundays, 5 p.m. Saturdays – but there was no building anymore. I couldn’t even see a foundation for one. There was a cemetery. I used to walk around cemeteries often enough – I […]
Fort Jackson and Coming into Buras.
12-May-14After Boothville there was some waste ground, which was coming up in forest; here there appears to be ground enough to grow trees. Cycling along the levee I came to the ruins of an old fort, Fort Jackson, which had been built in 1830 to complement a similar Spanish fort on the other side of […]