By admin on July 3, 2006
There’s a great article in the July/August 2006 Archaeology Magazine on the damage Katrina did to New Orleans. You can view a great picture of some of the damage that the Buras cemetery sustained on their website.
Posted in New Orleans | Tagged Cemeteries, hurricane katrina, New Orleans
By admin on April 20, 2006
According to Czech website, Radio.cz, a team of 3 Czech cemetery restorers will be working with the US non-profit, Save Our Cemeteries to assess the damages of New Orlean’s cemeteries caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Posted in New Orleans | Tagged Cemeteries, New Orleans, restoration
By Ed Snyder on December 16, 2005
Hurricane Katrina has transformed the legendary New Orleans cemeteries, known as “cities of the dead,” into a brown landscape of muck and stench. But fears that the cemeteries have been destroyed are allayed. At least in New Orleans proper, concerns that floodwaters would send large numbers of coffins and corpses floating away from their crypts [...]
Posted in Cemeteries, New Orleans | Tagged cemetery photography, hurricane katrina, metairie, New Orleans, pere lechaise
