Author recalls Katrina Superdome aftermath experience
What was it REALLY like being a tourist trapped inside the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina? Find out first hand from an American tourist who doesn’t hold back on what he observed, and how his observations offer a microcosm of what America’s future may be like.
Paul Harris, then a University of California at San Diego library staff member, will discuss his book “Diary from the Dome” Thursday, April 2 at 1:00 p.m. in Smathers Library, Room 1A. A book signing and light refreshments will follow Harris’s talk. The book will be available for purchase @ $12.95 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the UF Libraries.
“Diary from the Dome” is a personal chronicle of two very different trips to New Orleans – “America’s Most Soulful City.” The first chronicle is the author’s 1977 trip, recorded in his journals as “a naive twenty-one-year-old discovering himself.” The second trip finds the author caught in the vicious storm, Hurricane Katrina, and eventually becoming trapped as a tourist inside the New Orleans Superdome – with 20,000 other helpless people. This incisive and opinionated story presents Harris’s observations of human behavior at its best and at its worst and also serves as an eloquent tribute to “the incredible citizens of New Orleans.”
Paul Harris is a native Californian who studied at the University of California, Davis. He has worked as an assistant deputy probation officer, a library assistant and was a library supervisor before his recent retirement. He has been published in “City Beat,” the “Waco Times,” and the “Davis Enterprise.”
Subject areas of interest covered in the book include Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Journalism, Criminology, Public Health, Public Policy, Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Management; Crisis Management, African-American Studies, Race Relations, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Environmental Engineering Science, Geology, Chemistry, Natural Resources Conservation, Biopolitics and Medical Care.
For further reading, see http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2008/10/13_new_orleans.asp