The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 38, September 4, 2005, Article 1

WAYNE'S WORDS

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Our lead story is one everyone in the world has been watching
this week, Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans flood. Our
numismatic connection is the fate of the old New Orleans Mint
building - standing on higher ground near the French Quarter,
the mint may have escaped the worst flooding, but winds tore
off part of its roof. Little else is known.

I've been to New Orleans a couple times, and like most tourists
I drove through the beautiful Garden District, had a great meal
at Antoine's, partied along Bourbon Street, and ate beignets at
Cafe du Monde. I'm sure many of our readers have traveled
there at one time or another. This week's unfolding events
seemed to me to have a surreal, simultaneous, history-in-the-
making and history-repeating-itself theme. Having read David
McCulloch's riviting account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood and
Erik Larsen's 1999 book, "Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and
the Deadliest Hurricane in History" about the 1900 Galveston
flood, those historical events seem so much more real now.
Both have parallels with this weeks' events, in particular, the
Johnstown Flood which, like the failed levee system of New
Orleans, was a product of Man's failed attempt to control
Mother Nature. I highly recommend both books.

Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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