Last evening a few of us attended an opening for an exhibit of photographs taken by children at Coghill Elementary at Longue Vue House and Gardens. The exhibit was part of a therapeutic photography project whereby students snapped pictures of the Pontchartrain Park neighborhood (New Orleans' first middle-class African American neighborhood, founded in 1952) to document the neighborhood's essence and post-Katrina rebuilding efforts.
After we viewed the exhibit and a documentary about the process of creating the exhibit we toured the gardens. This photo is a picture of inlaid stone at Longue Vue's Spanish garden.
It's an uncommon thing, a green space in the middle of an urban landscape, but not so uncommon in New Orleans. And, it interlocks with a theme we've been experiencing--the flooring we installed in Hollygrove was called "Bamboo Supreme" and Longue Vue House and Gardens is located at 7 Bamboo Road.
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