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A Place Worth Defending

By Ethan Brown, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Tue Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:00 PM EST
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What it means to live in New Orleans: in the past 48 hours alone, I marched alongside a riotous Sunday afternoon second line held by The Revolution Social Aid and Pleasure Club and caught a Monday night performance from the great trombonist Glen David Andrews that was so ecstatic that he ended up crowd-surfing atop the adoring revelers.

Since I moved to New Orleans about two years ago, I'm constantly reminded of the social critic James Howard Kunstler's notion that our country is "a land full of places that are not worth caring about [and] will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”

Despite its multitude of problems, New Orleans proves itself worth defending nearly every day, no small feat for an American city these days. And I very am proud to live here.

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    i think that could well (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by cpinva on Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 12:24:50 AM EST
    Despite its multitude of problems, New Orleans proves itself worth defending nearly every day,

    for every city and small town in america. as annoying as they are at times (and boy, are they ever!), pretty much everywhere in this country has something of value to o