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See "Edward Douglass White: Louisiana's U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice" -- a Louisiana State Museum traveling exhibit that explores the lives of White and his father, Congressman Edward Douglass White through Sept. 9 during library hours at Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 West Napoleon Ave., Metairie. Food and arts camp The Ogden Museum of Southern Art's free food and arts camp for children entering the second, third or fourth grades in Orleans Parish public schools begins today. Participants will learn about good nutrition and how New Orleans' heritage is expressed through food and cooking. They will prepare their lunch each day and, on Fridays, they will use the fun, fanciful napkins, menus and ornaments they have made throughout the week to decorate their lunch tables.
Anger, Sadness Mark Katrina Anniversary
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable Wednesday throughout the city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss doesn't seem to subside.Hurricane Katrina made landfall south of New Orleans at 6:10 a.m. Aug. 29, 2005, as a strong Category 3 hurricane that flooded 80 percent of the city and killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.New Orleans churches staged memorial services, including one at the historic St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square, and ring bells in honor of the victims. People throughout the city will hold their own private ceremonies to remember where they were when Katrina hit, and what they lost."We ring the bells today for the 17, 1,800 people who have gone on to a better place," Mayor Ray Nagin said after large bell tolled a dozen times and a crowd wordlessly sounded handheld bells for more than a minute.
Starfish cookbooks 'have a story to tell'
There's something new on the menu at the Starfish Café. Besides café specials like black bean soup, Cobb salad and chocolate cupcakes, the chalkboard by the front counter announces: "Cook Books Are Here!" Since May, this East Broad Street restaurant and culinary training school has been selling copies of its own hard-cover book, "Starfish Café Changing Lives One Recipe at a Time..." The book offers a wide range of dishes - from Louisiana-style barbecued shrimp to the café's award-winning bread-and-butter pudding. Although nearly every Savannah gift show and book store sells cookbooks by PTAs, church auxiliaries and even sports fishermen, the café's cookbook was unique, Starfish officials said. This collection of recipes was created by the Union Mission Inc.
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