In late June, New Orleans artist Robert Tannen spent $6,000 to purchase a retired 30-foot lifeboat. The hazard-orange vessel was built to hold 74 crewmen, in case their freighter sank beneath them. Tannen found the boat for sale in the parking lot of a movie industry prop shop in Slidell. He plans to have the...Read More

ANNOUNCING AWF’S FIRST VIRTUAL COMMUNITY ADAPTATION LEADERSHIP FORUM “Aligning Louisiana Government with the Rising Tide” Join us on Thursday, September 5, 2019 from 10:00 am – 11:30 amfor a virtual Community Adaptation Forum. As communities across the Gulf Coast are dealing with the effects of sea level rise and stronger and longer lasting storms impact our coasts, AWF...Read More