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Makes You Wanna Holla

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

November 5, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16 bingo Rage New Orleans East is a section of town, within the city’s borders, that is nothing like the rest of New Orleans.  It was reclaimed swampland, drained by a couple of Texan developers in the 1950s for the city of tomorrow.  New Orleans was booming at the time, with a massive NASA plant building the Titan rockets.  (Made sense – there was a harbor and it was halfway between Houston and Cape Canaveral.)  New Orleans East was supposed to draw in all the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:34 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously ·
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From high up, fifteen thousand feet above, where the aerial photographs are taken, 4121 Wilson Avenue, the address I know best, is a minuscule point, a point of green

The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom

August 6, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Yellow   This is a recently published memoir that is presented as a family history. Sarah Broom grew up in New Orleans East, a community that others would give her looks when she mentioned it to strangers, and as the youngest of twelve children, she tells the story of her grandparents, her parents, her siblings, herself, and the house at the center of their lives. The memoir tells the family history and its strength here is giving us a series of events from […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Sarah M Broom, The Yellow House, yellow

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:424 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr12bingo, Sarah M Broom, The Yellow House, yellow ·
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