The current LSU/VA plan abandons Charity Hospital, one of New Orleans' most iconic architectural and cultural wonders. The plan also calls for the destruction of 249 historic homes in the Lower Mid-City neighborhood. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Charity Hospital and the adjacent Lower Mid-City neighborhood to its 2008 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It is believed that the German immigrants who settled Lower Mid City in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries provided the brass influence that helped foster the development of Jazz, arguably the most important musical movement in American history. Charity Hospital itself has been the birthplace of many of the artists that have established New Orleans as one of the nation's most unique and irreplaceable communities.
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Gregg Stafford is the beloved New Orleans trumpet player, community leader and co-founder of the Black Men of Labor social aid and pleasure club. Here Mr. Stafford talks about the importance of Charity Hospital in his own life, and the life of his City of New Orleans. Charity is "where I took my first breath of life," he says. "We're trying to rebuild the city and a lot of people need Charity Hospital to reopen." 
Tom Piazza is the New Orleans-based author of