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Katrina Victims Settle in MA
By Fred Thys

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Patrick Wooten, a Hurricane Katrina survivor who is residing at Camp Edwards
Patrick Wooten, a Hurricane Katrina survivor who is residing at Camp Edwards
Boston, MA. - August 28, 2006 - A year ago, more than two hundred evacuees from New Orleans landed at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod.

They spent their first weeks there, then many went home. But others decided to settle in Massachusetts.

Fred Thys revisits one such family of transplants, the Wootens.

Click the listen link to hear his story.





Tirrial Wooten. (Photo: Fred Thys) Web Extra
See photos of Tirrial Wooten fishing for stripers.




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