[Dixielandjazz] Re: Jack Maheu

[baglady4 at juno.com]

Listmates:
>From my niece in Rochester, NY ...
I didn't know if you knew that Jack 
>(<http://www.jackmaheu.com>www.jackmaheu.com) was in New Orleans and 
>has been for a few years now. He remarried (again) but is getting 
>divorced (again). My nephew John, 27, and his daughter Jenessa, 5, 
>flew to NO two weeks ago and they are Jack and Joy (remember Joy?) 
>all drove to California to visit Jack's half-sister. The 3 younger 
>ones flew home (to Ithaca and Chicago), and Jack stopped to visit 
>friends in Las Vegas when Katrina hit.
>
>His wife evacuated to Dallas with their dog, Banjo, and Jack was 
>supposed to meet her there, but he's a little pigheaded and is 
>trying to get back to NO to see if anything is left of his house. It 
>was built on a steelreinforced platform 10 feet above street level, 
>but if the house survived it has probably been looted. It was filled 
>with antiques, original music, recordings, a digital grand piano, 
>his mother Mildred's paintings, thousands of photos of family and 
>celebrity friends, and Loki knows what else. Anyway, no one has 
>heard from him since; cell service is out and so is every other 
>phone, I guess.
>
>His current keyboard player, an elderly blind black man who lives 
>alone, is unaccounted for. I'll let you know if I hear anything else.
>
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