639. Part 2 of our interview with Lori Peek about her book, The Continuing Storm, which she wrote with Kai Erikson. More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The Continuing Storm reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America.

Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19— The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.

The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it

as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in

print for the first time in 221 years. Order your copy today!

Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an

American romantic poet, journalist, and

long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born

in Massachusetts, in 1825, Bryant relocated to New York City, where he became an

editor of two major newspapers. He also emerged as one of the

most significant poets in early literary America and has been

grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible

and popular poetry.

"Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh,

    I know thy breath in the burning sky!

    And I wait, with a thrill in every vein,

    For the coming of the hurricane!

And lo! on the wing of the heavy gales,

    Through the boundless arch of heaven he sails;

    Silent and slow, and terribly strong,

    The mighty shadow is borne along,

    Like the dark eternity to come;"

called the "Great Barbados Hurricane" hit just west of Baton

Rouge wiping out sugar cane crops from BR to south of N.O. and

killing 1,500 people.

"Mitch" Landrieu born August 16, 1960 is the former Lieutenant

Governor of Louisiana, and a member of the Landrieu family.

Landrieu is a member of the Democratic Party. He is the son of

former New Orleans mayor and later a mayor himself, and the

Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban

Development under Joe Biden.

Louisiana Rural Economic Development (LaRuE) Summit 2025

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    The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana

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creating strategic partnerships with local, state, and

national leaders, federal agencies, corporate America, and

Native American Tribes.

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