2/17/07
Our full last day started off with two trips to the food store. First we stopped to get breakfast food and flowers to bring to Yvonne Brown's house in Slidell. Rich got an opportunity to meet her. Last night she took her grandson to his first Mardi Gras parade . When he woke up Rich was playing the piano and then serenaded him with her fiddle. He enjoyed us singing to him.
We had to eat and run to make another trip to the food store to get provisions for the Camp Liberty kitchen and be back by 10am to pick up Gordon. Vinnie drove 7 of us down to Common Ground Relief at St. Mary's of the Angels in New Orleans. Today was the First Annual Solidarity Awards celebrating local heroes who have struggled to rebuild communities and cultures in New Orleans. We left our instruments back in Slidell knowing that we'd be in and out of crime ridden areas today and that there'd be wonderful music wherever we went.
