About the Program

In April of 2022, the City Archives & Special Collections is excited to have hosted “Witness to Change: Conversations on Coastal Impacts,” an LEH and BHP funded program aimed at fostering conversations about the challenges facing coastal communities. Discussions were led by Dr. Robin G. Vander, Associate Professor of English and African American & Diaspora Studies at Xavier University.

Witness to Change: Conversations on Coastal Impacts is part of the BHP-funded project, Coastal Impacts: An Integrated Approach for Community Adaptation, Understanding, and Planning, which assists local communities to build intergenerational coastal literacy through community conversations around books, film, and exhibitions, fostering greater understanding of and support for coastal restoration projects. This series incorporates both fiction and nonfiction and will explore topics such as climate change, disaster response, displacement, the importance of home, community roots, and more.

Booklist

Please click on the link to check out a copy from the library:

• April 5, 2022 Bayou Farewell: the Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
• April 19, 2022  The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
• May 3, 2022  Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
• May 17, 2022  Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

This program was made possible through the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Friends of New Orleans Public Library