Ninth Ward of New Orleans

But getting back to Jenny, man.

Well, it's just, it's sad that they took it from that to calling it Ninth Ward Justice and putting it on that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I always, see, I've been forgetting the name.

About the piece, she says, it's a three-part postcard of life with water in New Orleans.

Over the water, a bridge operator in the Ninth Ward.

On the water, fishing on Lake Pontchartrain.

In the water, the pool at Treme Community Center, aka church.

Listen, you know that Hurricane Katrina was a long time ago.

They're not still flooded from the Ninth Ward or anything, all right?

Yeah.

What do you

... and yeah, barges and all kinds of chaos.

So we locked through the Harvey Canal and went out towards the Gulf and found a spot that you could come back into New Orleans, like, the Ninth Ward area, I think.

Mm-hmm.

We had to get under this bridge, and all of our boats were too high for it, so we cut the roofs off and ran them a- across the interstate.

Mississippi breeze somewhere in my eyes.

Ninth Ward nights, radio low.

Still feel you when the river moves slow.

I don't really wanna go till it's nine to five Man, I'm tired of working,

He was not in great health and then was one of the first people sort of known in New Orleans that died of the coronavirus.

But the House of Dance and Feathers is this small museum behind Ronald's house in the Ninth Ward.

And he came back after Katrina and got a little bit of help, a little bit of money, and rebuilt it.

And it's not big, but you go into this little museum.

summer in my eyes.

Ninth Ward nights, radio low.

Still feel you when the river moves slow.

River don't rush,

And we, of course, believed him.

As we started to do work further and further into the Ninth Ward, John broke down into tears and told us a devastating story.

He was on a search and rescue right after Katrina and assigned to a certain area.

In one house, the adults had gotten out, but their granddaughter was trapped.

Most people, and maybe even me in this situation, like, especially when you're like...

No, it's effective.

You're in the ninth ward.

You see all the devastation around you.

And he grew up in a neighborhood that had no opportunities, and it was made that way.

There were sections of the town where it was basically just kind of like an agreement that you guys go down here to the Ninth Ward on the other side of the canal, and you don't come across.

You don't come across the bridge.

And that's the way it was before Hurricane Katrina destroyed that.

Katrina.

Louisiana, New Orleans, the Ninth Ward.

Oh, my God.

I remember that so well.