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Remembering Hurricane Rita’s impact on southwest Louisiana, twenty years later
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64 Parishes Has Eight Finalists for 2025 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes Magazine has received eight 2025 Excellence in Journalism award nominations across seven categories, including Best Magazine, from the Press Club of New Orleans
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Winter Issue Publication Party in Lake Charles December 5
Join us on Thursday, December 5, in Lake Charles to celebrate the release of 64 Parishes’ winter 2024 issue!
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64 Parishes Story Receives Top Regional Journalism Award
“A Bar Called Charlene’s” by Robert Fieseler was honored with the Green Eyeshade Award, the top honor distributed by Southerners from the Society for Professional Journalists
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64 Parishes Contributors Are Finalists for Nine 2024 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes magazine has received nine 2024 Excellence in Journalism award nominations, including Best Magazine, from the Press Club of New Orleans.
Encyclopedia
Disasters
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and the subsequent levee failures resulted in one of the worst disasters in United States history.
Folklife
Crawfish Boils
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
Folklife
Blessings of the Fleet
At Boat Blessings, a Catholic priest blesses a community’s shrimp boats before the start of shrimp season
History
Sophie B. Wright
A New Orleans educator and civic activist who embodied the complexities and racialized limits of white southern Progressivism.
K-12 Resources
7.9 d, 7.10 m. Free People of Color from the Early American Period through the Civil War
After the Louisiana Purchase, lawmakers passed numerous restrictions against free people of color, though they still experienced some economic gains and opportunities.
1.8 b. Zydeco
The accordion and rubboard are the lead instruments in this musical form.
8.17 c. Hurricane Betsy
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
7.9 e. Neutral Strip
The Neutral Strip existed outside the governance of either the United States or Spain until 1821.
