Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
The New Orleans Lakefront Airport was built by the Louisiana governor Huey P. Long on a tongue of fill that sticks out into Lake Pontchartrain. Its terminal was designed by the same architect Long had used to build a new Louisiana state capitol and a new governor’s mansion, and it was originally named for one of Long’s cronies, Abraham Shushan. In the last seven thousand years, the river has avulsed six times, and each time it has set about laying down a new bulge of land.
Source: www.newyorker.com