ScottieBaseball
10-16-2008, 05:00 PM
I chaperoned my son's field trip to the Maryland Science Center today and we watched "Hurricane on the Bayou" in the I-MAX Theatre. In a nutshell it was a documentary on pre-Katrina Louisiana wetlands and the post-Katrina effects. Blues musician Tab Benoit and 14-year-old violin prodigy Amanda Shaw have teamed up to bring attention to the way good-intentioned engineering efforts to make Louisiana "liveable" are having the opposite effect.
The music was great and I thought the film did an excellent job all the way around. It was entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking. I honestly had no idea how building levees have altered the ecosystem in the Bayou, but this film was excellent at explaining it in layman's terms and also describe some clear, reasonable solutions already being employed.
Great flick!!!
The music was great and I thought the film did an excellent job all the way around. It was entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking. I honestly had no idea how building levees have altered the ecosystem in the Bayou, but this film was excellent at explaining it in layman's terms and also describe some clear, reasonable solutions already being employed.
Great flick!!!