I remember walking on N. Rampart st. one day looking into the great Louis Armstrong park and realizing that no one has been in or has started to even clean up the grounds of this beautiful park that has much history behind it. So I said to myself "Hey maybe one day they'll get around to it and it'll be re-opened sooner than later". Many months had past and then a whole year had gone by after that and still nothing has been done with the park. The steel gates have not even been open yet to this day and rust has set in to these monsterous gates that sit in front of a statue of the great african-american musician himself.
Now two and a half years after the storm I have a vision of unlocking those rusted gates to revive this great and very historical park so that once again the people of New Orleans can march through Louis Armstrong park with family and friends to that good old sound of beautiful jazz here in the big easy. Soon everyone will be able to watch the Soul Rebels,Rebirth Brass band,The Jazz Vipers, and many more perfrom in this great park. This is a work in progress,but will happen and with help of my friends here at Hands-On New Orleans and many other volunteers from either local churches,colleges, the community or from other areas of the U.S. who come and devote their time to rebuild can help make this a reality.
I am very glad to be a part of this project alongside my friends here at Hands-On and just want to hurry and get it re-opened so we can all enjoy it once again.
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