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Dear Penny, As with everyone else on this list, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Having spent my entire life (all 70 years of it) in Florida, I do know what you are going through. I was worried about my family in Miami until I finally heard from them and they only got Katrina as a baby hurricane. I also have distant cousins (lots of them) in Mississippi, but they are in the upper part of the state and didn't get the horrible devastation the Gulf area did. I do mean this - if there is ANYTHING I can do for you or your family please let me know off list. This is not a time to be mouthing platitudes - this is a time for friends to rally around, and I consider you a friend even though I have never met you in person. Again, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Lalah, Never give up, Never surrender --- "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:16:41 -0400 To: "h-costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [h-cost] Storm update I had promised last week that we would have a free access to our Library at the beginning of this week. I am taking some days off this week and have to cancel the free access. A lot of people have written asking about the Library access. After you read the following I think you will understand why I am taking a few days off. Several of you know that I am from the Mississippi Gulf Coast . I was there for two family unions in July. I am from Biloxi/Ocean Springs area and my husband is from Gulfport. Both of us have very large extended families there. They live from Slidell, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama. I have five siblings and my Mom, my husband have two siblings living on the Gulf Coast. Several of our family members have lost their homes, jobs, and businesses to the Hurricane. My husband's sister in Colorado Springs, my sister in Tampa, and I have been frantically trying to locate our families. Monday morning was the last we heard from those family members that didn't evacuate. Now they don't have phone are internet access. Even the ones who left on the Coast, their cell phones are not working because their area code is for the Gulf Coast. My husband's brother and sister, their spouses, and six children were in the same home, in North Gulfport. They were at the brother's home. The last time we spoke was Monday at 11:00 AM. Their electricity was out and we were talking by cell 15 mins. before the worse part of the hurricane. They didn't know the hurricane eye was heading for them until we called. The sister's home, (my husband's family home since 1920) was about five blocks from the beach in Gulfport. We don't know if the family home is still there, but from photos on TV, we don't have much hope. The home is near where you are seeing the news film where the Dole banana trailers for semi-trucks, Grand Casino, and downtown Gulfport. My Aunt lived two streets from the beach in the same area of Gulfport and we are sure her home is gone... my aunt did evacuate. We don't know where another eldery aunt My mother evacuated to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to my 4th brother house. We talked with them on the phone giving them updates on the hurricane until 15 minutes before the eye of the hurricane hit. Today my sister got in touch with him. He could only talk for a couple of minutes. They took some damage to their house but can live in it. He is a fireman and went to the city, but had to use a chainsaw to cut down trees on the road to get to the city. He did see some TV footage at the firehouse. My mother doesn't know how bad the Gulf Coast is and that she probably doesn't have a house anymore. Her house was near the Beau Riverage casino and the Lighthouse on the beach in Biloxi... near the apt. complex that 30 people died in. Mom worked for my business and my 3rd brother. The apts. that I mentioned was on a street between Mom's house and my brother's business. We don't think he has a business or home anymore. We heard from brother #3 today. He evacuated to Pensacola. He lived in a condo on the beach in Pass Christian. That area took the eye of the hurricane and it is so bad there that very few reporters can get there. Brother #2 is working off the coast of Africa for the past month. He lives in Gautier, MS. His entire family (children and grandchildren) evacuated to Northern Louisiana. We have not idea how their house faired. My brother is due to come in from Africa Wed. or Thurs. night. We don't even know where he is coming into... we can't get threw to his families' cell phone. Ironically he is the boss over several oil rigs in Africa. My 1st brother primary home and businesses in Mobile, Alabama faired well.
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A long message but it helps me to take my mind off my worries... Many thanks to everyone of you for your thoughts and prayers. We really need all that we can get. Elizabeth, you made a really good suggestion about sharing the extra costume stashes. Please tell Stephen I really like his idea. My fifth son is going to the University of Mississippi (USM) at Hattiesburg, Mississippi next year. He wants to minor in acting. He started working in a Halloween costume shop last week to earn money to go to this college for the Fall 2006. USM has a really nice new performing arts building. We heard tonight on all the cable news networks that USM took a very hard hit from the hurricane. They also have a home economics education degree, and probably they would like extra stash too. We don't know the extent of the damage at USM. Several high schools on the Gulf Coast probably lost their wardrobes in the drama departments. Drama has really taken off on the Mississippi Gulf Coast because the casinos were bringing in the touring Broadway shows. The casinos promised that they are rebuilding. The Grand Casino was the first to go on TV and say that they were rebuilding in their casinos in Biloxi, Gulfport, and New Orleans. To bring this into a costuming topic... I have seen over the past 10 years some really nice paying costuming jobs at the Coast casinos advertised. A reporter on the news tonight asked why would anyone want to live in a place that gets so many hurricanes. <<> Maybe he should go to NOAA's website and see what state's receive the most hurricanes! Then move everyone out of Florida and North/South Carolina too! They have a lot of hurricanes! Albert Cat, get to packing... I am moving you! I will show you all why the Gulf Coast is a great place to live I am just doing this for h-costume members. Below are the passwords to my online Library. If you have trouble with the passwords, please don't write me. I have to go back to worrying after this message. The passwords' security is very picky. Hopefully things around here will improve by Friday or Saturday and I will have the passwords changed for the month and that will end the free access. You can login to the Library at www.costumegallery.com/research.htm or www.costumelibrary.com . Just click on Subscriber Login button. Library's passwords Login: cg2003 Password: lilyoct5 Make sure to use as lower case letters, no space before, in-between, or behind the login characters. I got my love for costumes as a child going to the Biloxi Beach and watching the Mardi Gras (MG) parades. As a teenager, I started going to New Orleans to see and photograph the costumes in their MG parades. When you see on the news the Casinos... across the street was a Mardi Gras Costume and History Museum. It was across the street from the Beau Rivage and the Hard Rock Casino (the one with the big red guitar). On the news footage, where the museum was now looks vacant. In 1999, we did a videotaping of the museum costume collection to put on my website. Besides the MG court costumes, the museum had a nice section for kids to put on MG court costumes. I don't think they were the kids' costumes that were actually used at MG court. On our free access site of The Gallery, www.onlinecostumeball.com you will see some of my kids in those costumes. I think they are in the 1999 online Ball. I am afraid the Biloxi museum lost all their costumes. I also did the videotaping at the Mardi Gras History Museum in Mobile. Now, we just need to purchase the software to put the videos online. Susan, my asst. lives in Mobile On one of my trips home to the Coast, Susan and I went to the Mardi Gras Museum in New Orleans' (N.O.) French Quarter for a photoshoot of their costume collection. We have been for years wanting to do a history of MG costumes together. Last MG/carnival season, I put the photos from the New Orleans' shoot online... now you need the Library passwords. These photos are located at http://www.costumegallery.com/Library/MardiGras/NO/2003/ . Take a good long look at the costumes... if the French Quarter in N.O. gets any more water in the next few days, these costumes may be under water. This museum is located in the French Quarter near Bourbon Street. BTW, make sure to click on the small images for the enlargements of the costumes. During my visit to the Coast in last month, Susan and I had planned to go back to N.O. and Mobile for more photoshoots of the MG costumes. Because a tropical storm, and another hurricane was coming in behind it on our planned days to do the photoshoots, we didn't go. Instead my sister and I went to Pass Christian and did a photoshoot of the Antebellum homes on the beach. I jumped out of the van and took the photos between the tropical storm's feeder bands. Some of these home photos are in our Library at: http://www.costumegallery.com/Library/homes/PassChristian/pa
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- Original Message - From: "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "h-costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:16 AM Subject: [h-cost] Storm update I had promised last week that we would have a free access to our Library at the beginning of this week. I am taking some days off this week and have to cancel the free access. A lot of people have written asking about the Library access. After you read the following I think you will understand why I am taking a few days off. Penny, I'm so sorry to hear about your family, but on the topic of the Costume Library if you've made this promise in several different quarters (aside from this list) perhaps a note on the website itself to the effect that you have to take time out due to large numbers of your families being affected by the hurricane may help stop the emails on the topic. I'm going to take this opportunity to pass on a suggestion that was made on another list, donating to the red cross or other organisations participating in the disaster relief is a good idea in the short term but don't forget about the long term rebuilding of lives as well. Once the essentials are taken care of and things like rebuilding houses has been completed (or is at least well underway) we can help those who share our hobby to get back to their normal life, a lot of our fellow costumers will have lost fabric stashes built up over years, their wardrobe of costumes, patterns, books, sewing machines and all those useful little things you gradually accumulate over the years. Too often people forget about a disaster once it moves off the front pages but perhaps we could think long term. Go through your fabric stash (I'm sure most people on this list have worked out they have more than they are ever likely to use even if they stopped collecting today) Go through your library and work out if you have 2 copies of a useful book, make a copy of your best patterns, Then find a group in the affected area that shares your interests (presumably there are several list members in the area you can ask them once they're back online) and ask them if they would be interested in taking your books/patterns/fabric etc. to share among members of their group. (original credit for the germ of this idea must go to Stephen du Toit on the Renaissance Tailor yahoogroup) Elizabeth Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Hugs and prayers. Susan - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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At 05:16 PM 8/30/2005, you wrote: I had promised last week that we would have a free access to our Library at the beginning of this week. I am taking some days off this week and have to cancel the free access. A lot of people have written asking about the Library access. After you read the following I think you will understand why I am taking a few days off. Penny, you know from me that family comes first. Your family needs matters more than anything we want to do. You have the prayers of my family and me, and any help you need; just ask. Take care, Kimiko ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Oh Penny, we are so, so sorry. Please know our prayers and good thoughts are with you and all your family and if there's ANYTHING we can do to help in any way at all, please, please ask. Chris G. and Family Penny Ladnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had promised last week that we would have a free access to our Library at the beginning of this week. I am taking some days off this week and have to cancel the free access. A lot of people have written asking about the Library access. After you read the following I think you will understand why I am taking a few days off. Several of you know that I am from the Mississippi Gulf Coast . I was there for two family unions in July. I am from Biloxi/Ocean Springs area and my husband is from Gulfport. Both of us have very large extended families there. They live from Slidell, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama. I have five siblings and my Mom, my husband have two siblings living on the Gulf Coast. Several of our family members have lost their homes, jobs, and businesses to the Hurricane. My husband's sister in Colorado Springs, my sister in Tampa, and I have been frantically trying to locate our families. Monday morning was the last we heard from those family members that didn't evacuate. Now they don't have phone are internet access. Even the ones who left on the Coast, their cell phones are not working because their area code is for the Gulf Coast. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Penny, all my good thoughts go out to you and your family. ::Virtual Hug:: Please, please let me know what I can do to help. Bridgette ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Oh Penny, I'm so sorry to hear how hard Katrina has hit your family! Don't worry about us, don't even worry about the Costume Library. Both the Library and H-costume will be here when you need us. Do what you need to do for yourself and your family. I can't speak for anybody else, but your family will be in my thoughts this evening and I will send all the good energy I can down to them from the other end of the Mighty Mississippi. Your friend in Chicago, Karen Seamstrix -- "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had promised last week that we would have a free access to our Library at the beginning of this week. I am taking some days off this week and have to cancel the free access. A lot of people have written asking about the Library access. After you read the following I think you will understand why I am taking a few days off. Several of you know that I am from the Mississippi Gulf Coast . I was there for two family unions in July. I am from Biloxi/Ocean Springs area and my husband is from Gulfport. Both of us have very large extended families there. They live from Slidell, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama. I have five siblings and my Mom, my husband have two siblings living on the Gulf Coast. Several of our family members have lost their homes, jobs, and businesses to the Hurricane. My husband's sister in Colorado Springs, my sister in Tampa, and I have been frantically trying to locate our families. Monday morning was the last we heard from those family members that didn't evacuate. Now they don't have phone are internet access. Even the ones who left on the Coast, their cell phones are not working because their area code is for the Gulf Coast. My husband's brother and sister, their spouses, and six children were in the same home, in North Gulfport. They were at the brother's home. The last time we spoke was Monday at 11:00 AM. Their electricity was out and we were talking by cell 15 mins. before the worse part of the hurricane. They didn't know the hurricane eye was heading for them until we called. The sister's home, (my husband's family home since 1920) was about five blocks from the beach in Gulfport. We don't know if the family home is still there, but from photos on TV, we don't have much hope. The home is near where you are seeing the news film where the Dole banana trailers for semi-trucks, Grand Casino, and downtown Gulfport. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Storm update
I had promised last week that we would have a free access to our Library at the beginning of this week. I am taking some days off this week and have to cancel the free access. A lot of people have written asking about the Library access. After you read the following I think you will understand why I am taking a few days off. Several of you know that I am from the Mississippi Gulf Coast . I was there for two family unions in July. I am from Biloxi/Ocean Springs area and my husband is from Gulfport. Both of us have very large extended families there. They live from Slidell, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama. I have five siblings and my Mom, my husband have two siblings living on the Gulf Coast. Several of our family members have lost their homes, jobs, and businesses to the Hurricane. My husband's sister in Colorado Springs, my sister in Tampa, and I have been frantically trying to locate our families. Monday morning was the last we heard from those family members that didn't evacuate. Now they don't have phone are internet access. Even the ones who left on the Coast, their cell phones are not working because their area code is for the Gulf Coast. My husband's brother and sister, their spouses, and six children were in the same home, in North Gulfport. They were at the brother's home. The last time we spoke was Monday at 11:00 AM. Their electricity was out and we were talking by cell 15 mins. before the worse part of the hurricane. They didn't know the hurricane eye was heading for them until we called. The sister's home, (my husband's family home since 1920) was about five blocks from the beach in Gulfport. We don't know if the family home is still there, but from photos on TV, we don't have much hope. The home is near where you are seeing the news film where the Dole banana trailers for semi-trucks, Grand Casino, and downtown Gulfport. My Aunt lived two streets from the beach in the same area of Gulfport and we are sure her home is gone... my aunt did evacuate. We don't know where another eldery aunt My mother evacuated to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to my 4th brother house. We talked with them on the phone giving them updates on the hurricane until 15 minutes before the eye of the hurricane hit. Today my sister got in touch with him. He could only talk for a couple of minutes. They took some damage to their house but can live in it. He is a fireman and went to the city, but had to use a chainsaw to cut down trees on the road to get to the city. He did see some TV footage at the firehouse. My mother doesn't know how bad the Gulf Coast is and that she probably doesn't have a house anymore. Her house was near the Beau Riverage casino and the Lighthouse on the beach in Biloxi... near the apt. complex that 30 people died in. Mom worked for my business and my 3rd brother. The apts. that I mentioned was on a street between Mom's house and my brother's business. We don't think he has a business or home anymore. We heard from brother #3 today. He evacuated to Pensacola. He lived in a condo on the beach in Pass Christian. That area took the eye of the hurricane and it is so bad there that very few reporters can get there. Brother #2 is working off the coast of Africa for the past month. He lives in Gautier, MS. His entire family (children and grandchildren) evacuated to Northern Louisiana. We have not idea how their house faired. My brother is due to come in from Africa Wed. or Thurs. night. We don't even know where he is coming into... we can't get threw to his families' cell phone. Ironically he is the boss over several oil rigs in Africa. My 1st brother primary home and businesses in Mobile, Alabama faired well. We just heard from heard from this brother tonight. He has generators and is bringing one to my 4th brother's home in Hattiesburg. We believe my 1st brother lost his new vacation home on Dauphin Island, Alabama. We haven't heard from my 2nd second and her daughter's family. They rode the storm out in northern Ocean Springs. This sister has MS and we are very worried about her. Because of the MS is can't take the 95 degree coastal weather without a/c. Her husband works on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. We don't know if he made it inland before the hurricane hit or not. Normally they come in the mouth of the Mississippi River which was hit first by the hurricane. My niece and her husband worked at the Grand Casino in Biloxi, and are now unemployed. The hurricane pushed this casino across the highway. My husband's family in Pearl River and Slidell, Louisiana have lost their homes to the floods. They had evacuated to northern Louisiana. We have heard from them. For our subscribers, you saw my photos in the Library of the huge historic antebellum homes on the beach in Pass Christian. I took those photos in July, ironically again during a tropical storm. I just saw news footage of th
