"I am hopeful, but I can't point to concrete things that make me
hopeful. Where could I go to not miss New Orleans? Where could I go
that would not pull me back here? This is what my eyes want to see,
this flat, oak-treed, bayoued, moss-covered place."--Rhoda Faust, owner
of the Maple Street Bookstore in New Orleans, La., which has reopened,
quoted in a Knight Ridder story.
