Once, Mark Benfatti couldn't imagine living anywhere but St. Bernard Parish, a close-knit, working-class community perched precariously between New Orleans and the wetlands leading to the Gulf of Mexico.
His parents had moved there in 1963, when he was a year old. It's where he met and married his wife, Donna, and where they raised their three daughters. It's where he ran four restaurants, serving the same familiar faces every day of the year.
