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Hooray for Hollygrove
July 13th, 2007
I have a full-time professional services contract with the New Orleans Housing Resource Center. I work for Paul Baricos, and with Meghan Finn on Hollygrove related recovery issues. They are assembling a block captains program, a newsletter for Hollygrove, as well helping to organize discussions on land use and development.
I continue to work on all aspects of Think New Orleans. There is no “but”. There is only “and”. I’m working on Think New Orleans, and the Road Home Unconference, and I have an office at the Trinity Christian Community Center, and I am affiliated with a neighborhood.
I’m in the middle of a lot of projects. The one that has most of my attention is the Road Home Unconference. I’m going to lend whatever support I can to Maitri Venkat-Ramani in her work on Rising Tide 2.
For Hollygrove, however, I’m focused on finding ways to get digital media into a neighborhood that has very few computers. The route we’re perusing is an older digital format that has become quite common in most American households. It’s called compact disc. We’re going to produce PodCasts for the block captains, but rather than distribute iPods, we’re going to burn CDs.
I’m going to interview an engineer with the Sewage and Water Board. Hollygrove is 9 feet below sea level. Water drains out of Broadmoor and Carrollton and into Hollygrove, where it is pumped into the Metaire 17th Canal and flows to Lake Ponchartrain through Jefferson Parish. It floods. It has flooded 11 times since the big one. (I’m going to post this and post corrections later.)
Last weekend Christopher Johnston and I went photowalking through Hollygrove. We chose a block and took a photograph of every house on that block. It’s on me to create a map that has all these photographs, so people can see the state of the neighborhood.
Expect to learn more about Hollygrove, as I learn more about Hollygrove.
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Here is more on Hollygrove
http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2007/07/01/sunday-morning/
Karen
I hope that we’ll be able to integrate efforts with Squandered Heritage. I’m still just getting settled into everything over hear at the office at Trinity Christian Community. I’m deploying a prettier, and hopefully better organized Think New Orleans. Neighborhood specific sections would be nice, and Hollygrove will be the place where I can start.
Hey, do you want to be a part of the CD we’re going to produce and burn?
As long as I can sing lead
No context, eh? We’re going to get digital information out into the neighborhood in the form of compact disc. It’s an easy to distribute information.
If we do it right, people might listen in the car. That’s what people do with PodCasts.