10/8/2023 0 Comments Take me to the river family secret![]() And James Jensen, one of the original members of Saint Anne’s, who was helping a dear friend’s widow divide up his ashes into 40 satchels for friends to scatter. We also met John Fast, an ad man from San Francisco who had flown in to scatter his father’s ashes. ![]() He and his girlfriend were going to scatter the ashes of their dog, Stitch, who had kept her safe in the days after Katrina. “It is the bringer of life through death,” he told me. He won’t talk about what he saw in those houses, the terrible things wrought by a river. On our first night in town, we met Marshall Gochenour, who’d come to New Orleans after Katrina to work with a nonprofit that cleared away rubble left by the flood. These days, Halverson and Wood raise money to hire the band, but they no longer track how many people join their parade carrying ashes of loved ones.
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