MONA LESTRADE

How do you rebuild your life when a hurricane almost destroys your home, and devastates your city? Mona Lestrade, from Derry, emigrated to the States as a World War II bride almost sixty years ago. She settled in New Orleans. And was living there happily, until four years ago, when Hurricane Katrina broke the levees. Many people left and many never returned...

Mona told her story to Mark Patterson

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