On a Sinking Louisiana Island, a Historic Tribal Land, Many Are Not Ready to Leave. P4-5
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YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to grab your chance and send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Thursday, May 2, 2019 Sha’baan 27, 1440 AH Doha today 260 - 360 HAPPY TO BE HERE: Tristan Billiot, one of the last children remaining on the island, lives with his mother and grandmother. Many of his friends have moved away. The last stand COVER On a sinking Louisiana island, a historic tribal STORY land, many are not ready to leave. P4-5 SHOWBIZ BACK PAGE Body shaming as a kid Fashion needs to have creative and aff ected Shaheen Bhatt. commercial equilibrium: Voigt. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, May 2, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.34am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.59am Zuhr (noon) 11.32am Asr (afternoon) 3.01pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.06pm Isha (night) 7.36pm USEFUL NUMBERS Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile that her friend was a serial killer. Her partner, Ted Bundy, CAST: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan became famous in the 1980s for committing several heinous DIRECTION: Joe Berlinger crimes against women, despite her disbelief, who watched SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, passively as the murders were unleashed from a very unique from the perspective of his longtime love interest, Elizabeth perspective. Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for Emergency 999 years. 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That much seems not be easy. certain. “It’s a paradise out here,” Edison ‘Over the last six decades, Dardar, a 69-year-old fi sherman, Imore than 98 percent of Isle de said as he tromped through his Jean Charles has vanished into the lush backyard in white rubber Gulf of Mexico, leaving a frail strip shrimp boots, stooping to pick up of land just two miles long and a a chicken, survey his neat rows of quarter-mile wide. green beans and admire the nascent With each high tide and with fruit of his blackberry bush and each hurricane, a little more of this persimmon tree. historic Native American land sinks “This here can’t be remade below the surface. someplace,” Chris Brunet,’ 53, Cow pastures are gone. Rice said as he looked out across the fi elds are gone. The encroaching open land where his family used salt water seeps into the roots of the to grow okra and cantaloupe. “It’s towering live-oak trees that loom just impossible. It’s a once-in-a- over the bayou, transforming them lifetime thing, a setting away from into eerie gray skeletons. the world.” Only about 40 residents remain — In the beginning, the island down from a peak of more than 300 wasn’t even an island. — and few take part in the old rituals: When the fi rst settler — a crabbing on the bayou, trapping Frenchman named Jean Marie muskrats and mink, afternoon coff ee Naquin, who had been disowned out on the front porch.