The Mobile Register this morning reports on the visit to Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre by seventeen 7th and 8th grade students from Highland Park, Illinois. See previous story originally reported earlier this month here.
BAYOU LA BATRE -- Like several of her classmates at Alba Middle School, 13-year-old Adrian Overstreet is recovering from Hurricane Katrina one photograph at a time.
The eighth-grader has ridden around Bayou La Batre with her mom and big sister, taking pictures of homes turned to piles of rubble, overturned boats and people struggling to recover.
Her work will be part of a traveling art, poetry and writing exhibit that seeks to tell Hurricane Katrina's story from the children's point of view. Alba Middle has partnered with Elm Place Middle School in suburban Chicago on the project.
Elm Place students visited Bayou La Batre this past week to tour the damage, take photographs themselves and talk to the Alba students about their experiences. Elm Place is funding the exhibit and is raising money to fly 19 Alba students to Chicago to see the finished work on display this spring.