Interviewer: Victoria Phaneuf

Affiliation: University of Arizona

I had met Thomas Owen at the Jazz Club some months ago. Sometime after that we met at the bar at the La Font Inn and I told him about the study in more detail and he agreed to participate. He's a shorter man, balding, with gray hair sometimes covered by a baseball cap. I see him most often in a black leather bomber jacket and often run into him at the Jazz Club. The interview was conducted at his house in Pascagoula, a one story, brick building a couple of blocks from the water. He is still in the process of finishing the work post-Katrina, so we did the interview in the living room. The kitchen has no furniture and there are still wires dangling from unfinished light sockets, though it is almost completed. The living room has few knick-knacks, mostly utilitarian objects, though there are a couple of pieces of nice wood furniture that he had re-done after the hurricane. We discuss the study briefly and begin the interview.