64 Parishes

Literary Culture Comes Alive at the Louisiana Book Festival

Lady Nellie’s Legacy

Justin Trosclair is an oyster farmer for the twenty-first century

Funky, Clean, Lean, and Beautiful

The eclectic guitar mastery of James Burton

Should Sugarcane Sing

Louisiana’s most notorious crop resists automation

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

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!

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

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.

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and the subsequent levee failures resulted in one of the worst disasters in United States history.

Crawfish Boils

Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.

Blessings of the Fleet

At Boat Blessings, a Catholic priest blesses a community’s shrimp boats before the start of shrimp season

Sophie B. Wright

A New Orleans educator and civic activist who embodied the complexities and racialized limits of white southern Progressivism.

8.8 c., 8.12 f. Standard Oil

The Standard Oil Company of Louisiana transformed Baton Rouge but found a political opponent in Huey P. Long.

8.12 f. Oil and Gas Industry in Louisiana  

While the oil and gas industry has helped grow Louisiana’s economy, it has also created significant environmental challenges.

4.19 b.–d. Archaic Period

During the Archaic period, people from the Evans culture built large mounds made of dirt.

1.8 f. Beignets

Beignets are a powdered sugar–covered treat.