When I was in New Orleans last week for the NPN meeting (and more -- report upcoming), I heard about the House of Dance and Feathers, Ronald Lewis' small private museum in the Lower Ninth Ward that housed a collection of artifacts and costumes associated with the African-American way of celebrating Mardi Gras. It was lost in the Katrina flood and rebuilt by a team of design students from Kansas State U., led by their professor Patrick Rhodes. It's a great story.

There's info/audio/pix about it on the Web at the Voice of America

and NPR

   

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