The Neighborhood Story Project is a nonprofit organization in partnership with the University of New Orleans.
  ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Creative Nonfiction Seminar Fall 2007

Paul Chan & the Classical Theatre of Harlem Visit John Mac

Exchange with the Mowanjum Youth Project in Derby, Western Australia

Before the Storm:
5 Books About New Orleans, Written by High School Students at John McDonogh
 
 
CREATIVE NONFICTION SEMINAR FALL 2007

During the 2007-2008 school year, students from the NSP bookmaking project at John McDonogh Senior High returned to the neighborhoods they called home before Katrina to take pictures, to recall memories, and to consider how these places fit into the stories they have to tell today.
 
Daron Crawford
Before the storm: Calliope Public Housing Development
These days: New Orleans East

Susan Stephanie Henry
Before the storm: Bruxelles, Seventh Ward
These days: Seventh Ward
Kareem Kennedy
Before the storm: St. Bernard Public Housing Development & the Seventh Ward
These days: Bywater
Kenneth Phillips
Before the storm: St. Bernard Public Housing Development
These days: Seventh Ward
Pernell Russell
Before the storm: St. Bernard Public Housing Development
These days: Eighth Ward
Roderick Taylor II
Before the storm: Lafitte Public Housing Development & Midcity
These days: Gentilly