Winter 2025
Tugs and Lines
Working from home, on the river
Current Issue
Tugs and Lines
Current Issue
The Wildest Show
Current Issue
The Decadent Double Dealer
Magazine
Winter 2025
The Wildest Show
The controversial chaos of the Angola Prison Rodeo
Winter 2025
More Than a Game
Coach Wilbert Ellis and the legacy of Grambling State University baseball
Winter 2025
Introducing Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara
Ferrara’s poetry captures the aesthetic beauty of life in Louisiana
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Events
64 Parishes Winter Publication Party in Ruston
Join us on December 4 in Ruston to celebrate the release of 64 Parishes’ winter 2025 issue
Latest
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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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
1.8 f. Tabasco Sauce
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
4.19 e. Poverty Point Culture
Poverty Point in Louisiana, one of the most significant archaeological sites in in the world, dates to 3,500 years and represents the largest, most complex settlement of its kind in North America.
7.8 h. Dunbar-Hunter Expedition
Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition to explore and document the lower regions of the Louisiana Territory.
8.17 c. Hurricane Betsy
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
