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StoryCorps: Anna Mae Martin Doucet

Anna Mae Martin Doucet (l) and Elise Sanchez
Anna Mae Martin Doucet (l) and Elise Sanchez

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ALSO: In this extended conversation, Anna Mae Martin Doucet talks about her early years living on the Bayou near Golden Meadow and tells her great-granddaughter Elise Sanchez that along with an idyllic country upbringing came the threat of hurricanes. 

Doucet talks about an unusual step the family took to get a place on higher ground. Now, there's a multi-generational approach to getting out of harm's way with the family in one place.

StoryCorps New Orleans interviews were recorded by StoryCorps, a national project to record and collect stories of everyday people. This excerpt was selected and produced by WWNO producer Eileen Fleming, with support from the WWNO Productions Fund and from Villere & Co., managing the investments of New Orleans' families for almost 100 years. Listen again at wwno.org or at nola.com.

 

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Eileen is a news reporter and producer for WWNO. She researches, reports and produces the local daily news items. Eileen relocated to New Orleans in 2008 after working as a writer and producer with the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. for seven years.

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