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You might be interested in this article by Josh Britton (’08) from the Trinity Forum Academy's online newsletter CONVERSATIONS. The opening text is below; see this link for the rest: http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/louisiana-in-the-distance/ ---------- Louisiana in the Distance “Here was a place that had not only given rise to jazz and jambalaya in the French Quarter but had sustained the Otts, the Joneses, and the Brittons in Livingston Parish—generations of my ancestors who had planted themselves in one place and worked hard to make it better. Aware of all this, I decided to leave.” If I feel a sense of responsibility for any place in the world, it’s south Louisiana. I spent the first twenty-two years of my life there and I have been shaped by that place in more ways than I can count. Much of that shaping came from a dense network of family and friends. I went to college at LSU in Baton Rouge, just a short distance from the small town where I grew up amidst my extended family. Until I came to Maryland last August as a Trinity Forum Academy Fellow, the longest I had ever been away from home was two months. It is perhaps unsurprising that much of my thinking and reading during my time at the Academy has concerned the notion of place—specifically, how relationships develop within the contours of shared places and how those places affect who we are and how we live. I began thinking seriously about place after hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit my state in the fall of 2005, as I was starting my senior year of college. The damage was a local and inescapable concern for residents of south Louisiana. After the storms, we couldn’t just change the channel or click a new link to escape the story. Even if the rest of the world moved on, we still had a devastated region and a dysfunctional major city to tend to.  ---------- The entry has 562 more words. http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/louisiana-in-the-distance/