When Hurricane Katrina struck, Ann Zanders had just arrived at her son’s duplex located behind the Greyhound bus station on Florida Boulevard with clothes for just a few days and plans to quickly head back to her Uptown New Orleans home once the weather cleared.
She barely knew where she was. Like many native New Orleanians, she thought of Baton Rouge as the country compared to her more urban home. During past visits, she went to just one place, the downtown offices of the state Department of Education.
“Baton Rouge was very foreign to me,” she said…