KAJUN'S.(The Talk of the Town)(Hurricane Katrina, 2005 damage)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-SEP-05

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Last week's coverage of Hurricane Katrina

Continuing coverage of Hurricane Katrina

Jon Lee Anderson on rescue and recovery in New Orleans

Joann Guidos, of New Orleans's Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, is a big woman with a piercing stare, the bark of a football coach, and a way of hugging people as though she intended to keep them physically anchored to the earth. She held her family of neighborhood drinkers together all through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, keeping her murky, stifling bar, Kajun's Pub, open so that the lonely and the broke would not endure the ordeal alone. All last week, a can of Pabst still cost a dollar at Kajun's, even after the power and water went off and keeping the beer cold meant scrounging for gasoline to feed a noisy generator out back. "These people got no place else to go," she said,...

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