Gina Phillips climbs to the top of the levee in a quiet stretch of New ... 9th Ward is a sacred place. … A lot of the things we overcame, I think it was from the blessing of the Ursuline Convent ...

What is the meaning behind the tiles in the sidewalk on Chartres Street near the Old Ursuline ... of New Orleans in 1815. In 1824, when the Ursuline sisters moved to a convent in the 9th Ward ...

The Ursuline nuns, sent to New Orleans ... nuns moved to the 9th Ward, where they stayed until the land was needed for the Industrial Canal. The nuns, the school and the convent moved uptown ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Rev. Charles Duplessis navigated the new landscape of the Lower 9th Ward, crossing from newly paved streets to those still muddy and rutted as riverbeds. He drove past a ...

ED GORDON, host: I'm Ed Gordon, and this is NEWS & NOTES. On Thursday some New Orleanians will see their homes for the first time in three months. That's when parts of the city's Ninth Ward will ...

Residents of New Orleans' Ninth Ward were boarding up their windows, packing up essentials and leaving the low-lying neighborhood on Monday, with few of the evacuating crowd expressing any faith ...