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If New Orleans is good enough for the American Library Association<\/a>, it’s good enough for our wedding!<\/p>\n

Last week, a delegation from ALA traveled to New Orleans to assess the situation. The delegation found that downtown, the French Quarter, and the Garden District had largely escaped flooding, and that essential services have been fully restored in those areas. They found the conference center and conference hotels bustling with hundreds of workman repairing broken windows, installing new drywall and laying new carpeting. Restaurants are reopening on a daily basis, and plans are already underway for Mardi Gras in February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If New Orleans is good enough for the American Library Association, it’s good enough for our wedding! Last week, a delegation from ALA traveled to New Orleans to assess the situation. The delegation found that downtown, the French Quarter, and the Garden District had largely escaped flooding, and that essential services have been fully restored … <\/p>\n

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