John Kemp
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1 week ago |
myneworleans.com | John Kemp
New Orleans, Arabi, Detroit South? Well, not quite. But in the early 20th century, the Ford Motor Company constructed an immense auto assembly center on North Peters Street in Arabi. The cars are now long gone, but the vacant factory building still stands today, awaiting a new life.
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1 month ago |
louisianalife.com | John Kemp
Slidell artist Solange Ledwith gave her gallery an unusual name. It’s called Swamp Girl Glass. She didn’t grow up in a Louisiana swamp, though her house in Slidell does back up to nearby Bayou Bonfouca. After a long nomadic life across the country, the name Swamp Girl is her way of saying she has found a home in Slidell, her mother’s hometown, a place where she can create her art and bring beauty to the community.
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1 month ago |
myneworleans.com | John Kemp
For more than 150 years, the New Orleans lakefront, with its cooling breezes off Lake Pontchartrain, has been a haven for New Orleanians escaping the summer heat. In the 1950s and 60s, post-World War II families enjoyed drives and picnics along the lake, watermelon stands, and most importantly Pontchartrain Beach and Lincoln Beach amusement parks. Times changed. Both are gone. Pontchartrain Beach and Lincoln Beach, however, were not the first amusement parks along the city’s lakefront.
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1 month ago |
jkempenergy.com | John Kemp
Spain and Portugal have been hit by widespread blackouts following a cascading failure on the high-voltage transmission system forcing them to attempt a complicated “black start” operation to restore electricity supplies. The region has one of the world’s highest penetrations of renewable generation from wind and solar so the blackout will be a case study of how renewable generators impact on reliability as well as restarting after widespread failure.
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2 months ago |
jkempenergy.com | John Kemp
Newsletters like this will become part of the subscription service from April 1. To continue receiving them, please subscribe via this linkU.S. gas inventories have started to climb unusually early this spring as milder weather and higher prices have slashed consumption by homes, businesses and electricity generators. Working gas inventories have been refilling since March 7, the earliest start in records going back to 2010, and compared with an average startaround March 31 in the last ten years.
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