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December 03, 2005
'Tis the Season
To be clever:
For Frank Evans, designer of Lakeside Shopping Center's holiday display, getting into the spirit of the season this year meant building a Christmas village that riffed on the post-Katrina landscape.
He created a winter wonderland replete not only with churchgoers and trains, but also abandoned refrigerators, houses covered in blue tarpaulins and a storm victim suspended from a helicopter.
Shoppers paused to enjoy the tongue-in-cheek cheer. Some of them did, anyway.
Evans, a landscape architect who has crafted the display for 13 years, removed some of the 2005 features Tuesday on orders from mall management, which said some patrons failed to see the joke. Tricia Thriffiley, Lakeside's marketing director, issued a statement saying that the mall did not "conceive or install" the decorations and did not intend to "hurt anyone's feelings."
--NOLA.com
The powers that be claimed the display was too upsetting to those who survived Hurricane Katrina and ordered it dismantled. The outcry was so intense afterwards that the exhibit is going back up this weekend.
Bravo! Well done!
Posted by LindaSoG at December 3, 2005 04:58 PM