![]() Post #9367, the 40 et 8, the Walsh County Historical Society and the Grafton Knight of Columbus Council #3918. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, the Grafton American Legion Post #41, the Grafton V.F. The couple lived and farmed in Farmington Township until moving to Grafton in 1995. Following his discharge, he returned to Grafton and started farming in Farmington Township.Īurel was united in marriage to Delores White on Jin Grafton. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He graduated from Grafton High school and then attended the University of North Dakota for one year. DeSautel was born Novemin Grafton, ND, the son of the late Albert and Marie (Campbell) DeSautel. DeSautel, age 78, of Grafton, ND, passed away on Wednesday, Decemat the Unity Medical Center of Grafton.Īurel F. They were telling us we were bad.Aurel F. The reefer-smoking musicians are so good. Everybody could see what the city was for. "The storm brought a lot of bad and a lot of good," he says. Ruffins thinks that spotlight will be revealing. "The street musicians, just the people who make up this very interesting cultural mix, and it was so much a part of what we were afraid of losing after Katrina," she says. Spicer believes Treme highlights an underappreciated side of New Orleans. "And I was like, 'Oh no, you would not last 30 seconds in my kitchen with that racket!' " "One of the first things I did when I went on the set was the sous chef was chopping vegetables and he was going chop, chop, chop really loud and banging the knife," Spicer says. In the show, Desautel is trying to reopen her restaurant after the storm. "She's younger, saltier and a little prettier than me," Spicer says. ![]() "Why not work in the place that you hang out every Tuesday?" she says. Karen-Kaia Livers signs up extras at Bullet's, a bar where Ruffins plays on Tuesday nights. But mostly, locals are thronging to be a part of the production. Others have grown weary of the TV crews and traffic disruptions. Some New Orleanians are concerned about how the city will come off in Treme, in part because there have been so many bad portrayals of New Orleans. "To have people like David Simon and Eric Overmyer come here and go to the heart of a community that is emblematically black - and also considered an area of high crime and high blight - is a hell of a statement about what is really important about New Orleans." The elite "don't invest in it, they don't take it seriously, they don't respect it," he says. It's significant that the show features a neighborhood long neglected by the city's elite, says Lolis Eric Elie, one of the local writers working on Treme. Lolis Eric Elie, a local writer working on 'Treme' To have people like David Simon and Eric Overmyer come here and go to the heart of a community that is emblematically black - and also considered an area of high crime and high blight - is a hell of a statement about what is really important about New Orleans. He and his mobile barbecue grill appear in Sunday's pilot episode. Ruffins, who owns Sidney's Saloon in the Treme, invites folks to come by in the afternoon for a big boil of crabs, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and asparagus. Trumpet player Kermit Ruffins gave NPR a tour of the neighborhood in his big black pickup truck. That's the New Orleans that Treme is trying to capture. Venture just outside the tourist-packed French Quarter, amid the shotgun-style houses of the Faubourg Treme neighborhood, and you'll find a character on just about every corner - and maybe a church or a barroom. ![]() Treme, the new HBO series from the team that made The Wire, has rooted itself deeply in New Orleans.Ĭreators David Simon and Eric Overmyer tell the story of post-Katrina life through the eyes of the musicians, chefs and Mardi Gras Indians that you'll only find in New Orleans.Īnd just like The Wire, locals are heavily involved in Treme - which they pronounce trah-MAY. ![]() Kermit Ruffins, who appears as himself in the new HBO series Treme, says he feels rooted when he plays trumpet in Congo Square, the plaza in New Orleans where slaves once gathered on Sundays to eat, drum and dance. ![]()
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