We created a systemic interviewing process that we hoped would be sensitive to traumatic experience, and in the making of the podcast joined those interviews with contemporaneous news footage from Katrina and historical archives to help create the sense that the listener is always inside the moment being described. Our goal was not to replicate those works nor to reinvent the wheel, but to credit them and draw inspiration from them as north stars for our methods. Some of the archives and projects that meant the most to us in our research, such as the Neighborhood Story Project, the House of Dance and Feathers, and the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum are all based on a bed of rigorous and rich oral histories. Floodlines is available online wherever you get your podcasts.
