Karen Hopkins moved from the little Cajun town of Pecaniere to Grand Isle in 1998. Most of the island’s residents work in the fishing industry, and Karen is in the middle of it all, managing Dean Blanchard Seafood, Grand Isle’s largest seafood processor. Business at Blanchard’s has almost completely stopped since the oil spill forced the closing of Gulf fishing grounds.
Karen lives on the water in a house designed to withstand floods (her last home was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina). In the clip here, I asked her to describe what she sees when she looks out her window.
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