New Orleans on American Experience

This two-hour documentary is a post-Katrina historical overview of the city of New Orleans and will be available online, after its airing date on 12 February 2007, at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/neworleans/... The New Orleans Times-Picayune T.V. columnist Dave Walker wrote "the film captures our committed otherness-- as home to Mardi Gras, as the incubator of jazz, as a population dedicated to sensual self-indulgence-- but it also stares down history you'd hardly celebrate."

Whether your trip to attend AALL in July will be your first visit, or you have visited in the past, or you are coping with living in post-Katrina New Orleans, the program will be of interest to all. It will present a more realistic perspective to contrast with the stereotypes and misconceptions which were the focus of the news reports right after Katrina.

Thanks to Georgia Chadwick, Law Library of Louisiana, for the heads-up.