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261 Part 2 of this book is dedicated, with gratitude, to the spirits of the more than four hundred narrators and interviewers, living and dead, who shared their stories and good will with the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project. Special thanks go to the eleven survivors whose narratives constitute the soul of this section: Shari Smothers, Marie Barney, Nicole Eugene, Henry Armstrong Jr., Dorothy Griffin, Josef Brown, Chantell Jones, Angela Trahan, Sidney Harris, Vincent Trotter, the late Glenda Stevenson Jones Harris, and Charles A. Darensbourg—as well as to survivor -interviewers Phylicia Bradley (who recorded Josef’s and Chantell’s stories), Darlene Poole (who recorded Sidney), and Johnna Reiss (who, with Nicole Eugene, recorded Vincent); and survivor photographer Dallas McNamara (whose photos of Nicole, Henry, Josef, Angela, Vincent, Glenda, and Charles appear in these pages). Katrina survivor and folklorist Katherine Parker transcribed several of these interviews, refined the transcriptions of others, and lent her expertise to the editorial process. Additional interview credits: David Taylor, folklife specialist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, who interviewed Acknowledgments 262 Acknowledgments Angela and Vincent; and Guha Shankar, folklife specialist, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, who recorded Carl Lindahl’s interview of Glenda. The editors thank the Johns Hopkins University Press and the editors of Callaloo for permission to print revised and updated versions of three articles from Callaloo’s Katrina issue, American Tragedy: New Orleans under Water (volume 29, number 4, 2007): Nicole Eugene, “Bridges of Katrina: Three Survivors, One Interview,” pages 1507–12 (Eugene 2006, the source for her chapter of the same name in this book); Carl Lindahl, “Recording Katrina: The Survivor Duet,” pages 1506–7 (Lindahl 2006b, a source for much of the chapter in this book titled “Survivor to Survivor : Two Duets”); and Carl Lindahl, “Storms of Memory: New Orleanians Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston,” pages 1526–38 (Lindahl 2006c, a source for much of the chapter titled “Transforming Endurance”). All three articles: © 2007 Charles H. Rowell, revised and reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. ...

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