“We have been eating pickled eggs. They are really pickled and they are good. There is nothing much to do here. Fishing is about it. I have lived here all of my life. 33 years. I want to move, but I can’t get my husband to get out of here. He is a commercial fisherman. We eat red fish every chance we get.”
“I love living here. My husband is retired from the refinery and we go to all of the bars. I love to fish. I help her take care of the baby. She is 7 weeks old.”
“Were you here when Katrina hit?”
“We left. There was 29 feet of water. Plaquemines Parish is always forgotten, but we are still human. We all live in mobile homes down here and we lost everything. It could happen again, but we aren’t leaving. We will always come back. We will leave for the moment, but we will always rebuild. There is no place like home.”
“Everybody knows everybody here. We are all related.”
“Me and her are best friends, but her children are my niece and nephew. The majority of people are commercial fisherman.”
“It is commercial fisherman and oil fields here and the oil fields but the oil fields are going under since oil prices dropped. A lot of people have been laid off. My daddy is 64-years-old and worked in the oil field since he was 17 and he just got laid off. There are no other jobs. Especially when you have one trade and that is the one thing you have done all of your life. People have lost their vehicles and homes. They can’t pay for them any more.”
“You can’t build anything, because other things are already here. I wish we could get a Taco Bell, but it would put our home people and mom and pop restaurants out of business. There is no fast food here. We have more barrooms than stores here. We are a friendly people. If you meet someone who isn’t then turn around.
“While you are here, go to Sidewater Road. It goes all the way into the water. It is still highway and pavement but it just ends. You can’t go no further. It is the end of the world.”
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