DAY 214 Benjamin Davis and Jamie Sandifer photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Jamie - I was raised on blues and rockabilly. My dad was friends with a lot of the musicians on the board. Back in the...
DAY 213 Sandy Shaver photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I’ve come here for private parties and the first one I came to was probably six or seven years ago, it was an anniversary party for a good friend. I...
DAY 212 Shawn Negrotto Campos [Raw Oyster Marching Club] photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). The first time I came to the Hall was not long after Katrina. I came here around 2011 when it had reopened under the previous...
DAY 211 Bonnie Miller photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I moved from Pennsylvania to Mississippi in 2006 to be my dad’s nurse. He had to have open heart surgery. He is still living strong by the grace...
DAY 209 Gwendolyn Lawyer photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I vaguely heard about the Hall but wasn’t sure what it was. They were not active then. This is the first time I’ve actually been in...
DAY 208 Lisa Joseph photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I just learned about the Hall two days ago when my sister Charlotte told me about it. At first I didn’t understand the significance and then she explained...
DAY 207 David Joseph photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I don’t remember the Hall so when people started talking about it now, I was asking where’s it at and what is it? The person we speak to...
DAY 206 Laura Kidd [Raw Oyster Marching Club] photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). After being with the burlesque troop we grew to become the Raw Oyster Marching Club and performed here for an Arts Alive event that...
DAY 204 Rudolph C. Rosemond photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My mother used to come to the Hall as a kid because her parents were coming here. Her mother, born in 1903, brought her here from New...
DAY 203 Sandra C. Barabino photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I was born here, but we were very sheltered so we weren’t allowed to come to places like the 100 Men Hall even though my dad was born into a...
DAY 202 Oscar Barabino, Jr. photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I was always aware of the Hall. It was a benevolent society that helped people when they got sick and paid for burials. It was a community fellowship...
DAY 201 Ann Madden photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I definitely did not know about the Hall until I moved here and I think I learned of it when I came to see Walter Wolfman Washington when the previous...
