Katrina's Rainy Day by Lauren Coghlan Tucker

Reginald and Amelia Coghlan are internationally collected artists from New Orleans, where they owned a French Quarter art gallery that closed after forty years following Hurricane Katrina. Their daughter, Lauren Coghlan Tucker, lived as a child with her parents in the apartment over the gallery at the “Gate of the Lions” on Toulouse Street. Famous for their copper and bronze water sculptures, the Coghlans are now retired to their home in the country. Amelia, however, still continues her true passion of painting. Sometime after the storm, she painted this beautiful cover portrait of Lauren’s youngest daughter, Reina, as a gift to her for her ninth birthday. Lauren, who also worked for many years following college in the family’s art business, was moved to write a story about the little girl in the painting. With Katrina’s life changing events so wrought in their conscience, this compassionate tale took form. It has proved an inspiring project for mother, daughter and granddaughter, and has brought some measure of closure to a tumultuous time in many lives. Lauren, husband Michael, daughters Reagan and Reina and son Ryan, live near their grandparents on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans.

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