New Orleans High School Students Write........

The Neighborhood Story Project......

is a community documentary program in New Orleans, Louisiana. Based out of John McDonogh Senior High, we teach high school students how to write books about their neighborhoods. Through creative non-fiction, photography, and in-depth interviews, they then create detailed portraits of their communities. In June of 2005, we published five books that looked at the city from different vantage points. These books were celebrated with block parties in the neighborhoods and were the second best selling books at independent bookstores in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of the destruction, we are in the process of re-envisioning our work and our city. Please stay posted for more information.

After the Flood

Surprising stories from survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. A woman who was at the convention center talks about some things she says were widely misreported and misunderstood. Two people explain how armed police from Gretna actually prevented them from leaving New Orleans at the height of the crisis. A teenager talks about what it actually feels like to go without water for two days. And more.

One of the teenagers interviewed in "After the Flood," Ashley Nelson, is the author of an amazing book called The Combination, about her neighborhood in New Orleans. All the copies that were available are now underwater. But The Neighborhood Stories Project, which collaborated with Ashley and several other New Orleans teenagers on books about their neighborhoods, plans to print another run as soon as possible.

http://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/

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