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Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember provides an uncommonly personal insight into life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. On August 29, 2005, the huge storm pummeled Mississippi with fierce winds, a center more than seventy miles wide, and a tidal surge in excess of twenty feet.
Members of the Mississippi State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts tell their stories of those awful days. Despite desperate circumstances and with great generosity of spirit, these witnesses to the greatest natural disaster in North American history recorded their experiences with a broad diversity of voices, over fifty women in all.
A Vicksburg resident and noted photographer, Melody Golding came to the coast as a volunteer for the American Red Cross. Her photographic journal of those days accompanies this text. Ellen Gilchrist, whose residence in Ocean Springs suffered damage, writes an essay; and Mary Anderson Pickard, whose home Katrina destroyed, provides a moving coda. Royalties from book sales will aid MSC Artist members.
From the Publisher
These haunting, first-hand accounts and photographs from the aftermath
---Feature true-life stories of Katrina and its aftermath from more than fifty Mississippi women
---Feature seventy striking black-and-white photographs of the coast and the first year of recovery
---Offer moving, personal tales of the storm that reveal the variety of experiences felt by those on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
---Create a book by and about the women of Mississippi
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