Longue Vue Gardens

This was - huh. I'll have to come back and add some reaction-y bits, but seeing as the peanut gallery is rioting about the lack of pictures, I thought I'd throw this up. In any case, the garden was beautiful, we've met the head gardener and and eaten at her house, and the photography project (see news snippet under the cut) made me cry. So here, have some video of us wandering around the green:





Pontchartrain Park Photography Project Opening
Thursday, May 21
5 – 7 p.m.
Cost: Free
Longue Vue, the students of Coghill Elementary School, and the residents of Pontchartrain Park welcome you to the opening of the Pontchartrain Park Photography Project, which will be on display through summer 2009.  Funded by a History Channel Save Our History Grant, this project is executed by Longue Vue and its project partners, The New Orleans Kid Camera Project, Tulane University, and Delgado Community College.  Project partner members worked with seventh and eighth graders at Coghill Elementary School to document the history of the school’s neighborhood Pontchartrain Park.  The students oral history collections and photographs are featured at the exhibit, as well as a documentary on Pontchartrain Park.  Longue Vue is one of eleven history organizations nationwide to receive a Save Our History Grant.  This grant funds innovative preservation projects designed to bring communities together, actively engage children in the preservation of their local history, and communicate the importance of saving local history for future generations.
Contact Jen Gick at 504.488.5488, ext. 320 or jgick@longuevue.com for more information.

(taken from here.)