They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans | 
pickMany have never heard of the batture, but it is well known in southeast Louisiana. It is the thin strip of mercurial land where eccentrics and unconventional families made their homes. This book was especially interesting for me, as I work for the Port and local rail line, and hearing the interactions between the agencies and residents here. Disputes with the Army Corps of Engineers, wealthy lawyers and industry, and how so many lost (cont…)
Cosmos_Moon Their homes and ways of life to industry and because the powers that are, presumed they were impoverished and abusive to their families. A camp community in Lake Pontchartrain was the first destroyed, later around 150 batture homes at Carrollton bend between Audubon Park and the city line upriver. Fry documents his own expense living on the batture and his research of others‘ across the last century and before. Very good! (edited) 2y
