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| Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
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New Orleans Park Recovers, but Slowly
By gmontefusco @ 8:59 AM :: 838 Views ::
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New Orleans' City Park was once a lush Southern landscape of lazy lagoons, majestic ancient oaks draped with Spanish moss, and magnolias framing the fairways of three golf courses.
That was before Hurricane Katrina swamped nearly all of it with up to 8 feet of water. Most of the grass in New Orleans' biggest park died, along with more than a thousand trees. The golf courses were left covered with weeds, the lagoons choked with debris.
But the 1,300-acre park, one-third larger than New York's Central Park, is slowly coming back, with the help of volunteers, private donations from around the world and a major gift from New Orleans Saints star Reggie Bush.
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