In the afternoon we were led by Walt (construction manager for RAI) on a select tour of New Orleans. We started out with a stop at the local NASA rocket assembly plant. It is mostly closed [with the end of the space shuttle program]. We then visited sites in St. Bernards, and then the lower and upper 9th wards. (The house we are working on is only about 6 blocks from Camp Restore, which is in East New Orleans.) Along the way we visited the National Park's Service new visitors center at the site of the Battle of New Orleans that occurred in 1815. Andrew Jackson, with a mixed band of 4000 regulars, locals and pirates defeated an army of 7000 British regulars. 2000 British killed to 20 Americans! Jackson had a built-up embankment, and the British marched into a hail of gunfire and artillery fire. We also visited homes in Brad Pitt's neighborhood (interesting: he paid for an archetect's competition to design modern houses) where we saw a number of interesting homes. We also entered "music village."
Tomorrow we plan on continuing the work and meeting the homeowner.
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| Karen reads in New Orleans |
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| A "Brad Pitt" sponsored design |
 The inside framing of Trinity Lutheran, Claiborne |
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