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Both New Orleans East and the Westbank were settled by the Vietnamese at the same time. [3] In later periods, Vietnamese settlements spread to other parts of the metropolitan New Orleans area including other sections of New Orleans East, Avondale, [2] and the City of Gretna. [4] The New Orleans East section was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
The Lee Circle Main Library around the time of its opening in 1908. The system began in 1895 in the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. [1] Abijah Fisk was a merchant who, over fifty years earlier, had left his house—at the corner of Iberville and Bourbon Streets—to the city for use as a library.
Following the Fall of Saigon in 1975, the first group of 1,000 Vietnamese families were resettled in the New Orleans area with the first families finding housing in the New Orleans East Area and on the Westbank in Marrero [2] and approximately 500 refugees were resettled in Baton Rouge. [3]
John-Nhan Tran was born in the Bình Giã district of South Vietnam on February 6, 1966, to Dung Van Tran and Lai Thi Nguyen. [3] [4] When Tran was two years old, his mother was shot and killed during the Vietnam War. Tran's older brother was also killed by a land mine. [5] When Tran was nine, his family fled from Saigon, South Vietnam on a ...
After the Viet Mercury ceased publication, two other newspapers replaced it in Northern California: Việt Tribune và VTimes. [19] [20] Early newspapers focused on local news for Vietnamese Americans; later they expanded to serving other readers. Người Việt has an English edition for Vietnamese Americans born in the US. Besides these ...
The current state library was not the first. The Louisiana State Library was created in 1838. It was originally located in New Orleans, which was the state capital at the time. In 1849 the capital was moved to Baton Rouge, and the library also moved. [2] During the Civil War the library was moved back to New Orleans to protect the collection ...
The seal of New Orleans is the official insignia representing the city of New Orleans, located in the state of Louisiana. The first version of the arms was made in 1852 following the merger of the three municipalities that made up New Orleans. It was modified throughout the 20th and 21st century to alter the individuals, colours and form on the ...
New Orleans is known for specialties including beignets (locally pronounced like "ben-yays"), square-shaped fried dough that could be called "French doughnuts" (served with café au lait made with a blend of coffee and chicory rather than only coffee); and po' boy [231] and Italian muffuletta sandwiches; Gulf oysters on the half-shell, fried ...