Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

\r\nBoats sailing on land\r\nBodies floating like dead fish\r\nHouses bulldozed over by Mother Nature\r\n\r\nHope\r\nDesperation\r\nGenerosity\r\n\r\nAn enclosed field of imitation dwellings\r\nStaircases leading to nothing\r\nHorizontal trees\r\n\r\nAn endless river of motionless cars breaking away from obliteration\r\nOnly to come back to desolation\r\n

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“Seen,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 23, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org./items/show/26341.

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