Stories From the Storm

Folklorists train survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to harvest research — and even healing — from their experiences

Carl Lindahl was at Houston's convention center, handing out fresh clothes to newly arrived evacuees from New Orleans, when he heard his first Katrina stories. The people he was helping talked to him. And talked, and talked.

"They couldn't not tell their stories," he says. "And the stories they told portrayed them in such a different

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