Summer 2024
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2024 Humanist of the Year Dickie Landry. Photo by Brian Pavlich.
Contents
Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks
New Orleans as a Nexus of Power
The Man Who Won The National WWII Museum
Making Eyes Light Up
Indigenous Internationalism
Celebrating Creole Culture
A Divine Epiphany
What More Do You Need?
Looking Down on Creation
Departments
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Articles
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To the Limits of the Saxophone
Musician, photographer, Renaissance man, and Humanist of the Year Dickie Landry
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Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks
Story-laden trees anchor the Louisiana landscape
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New Orleans as a Nexus of Power
American Empire, Bananas, and the Crescent City
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The Man Who Won The National WWII Museum
Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD, is the 2024 Champion of Culture
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Making Eyes Light Up
Jane Wolfe is the Light Up for Literacy awardee
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Indigenous Internationalism
Elizabeth Ellis’s "The Great Power of Small Nations" named the 2024 Humanities Book of the Year
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Celebrating Creole Culture
"Creole New Orleans, Honey!" named Museum Exhibition of the Year
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A Divine Epiphany
Freddi Williams Evans is the Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee
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What More Do You Need?
The Precipice, the 2024 Documentary Film of the Year, documents the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe’s fight for federal recognition
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Keeping the Culture
"The old songs live forever"
Summer 2024
Confessionals, Baseball, and Forever-Spreading Suburbs
Andre Dubus's Lafayette stories
Magazine
Ils Sont Partis
Bush tracks of South Louisiana
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Give Me Louisiana
The ballad of Louisiana’s former state song
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The Last Thing I’ll Ever Write About Stuffed Shrimp
One writer’s crabmeat-filled obsession
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The Moncla Gap
Of rivers, shifts, and avulsions
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Bienvenue en Louisiane
Francophone developments in Louisiana tourism
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A Gift for the Ages
The legacy of Laura Simon Nelson
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The Gumbo Family Tree
An excerpt from "Gumbo" by Jonathan Olivier
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Grammy-Winning Bluesman Bobby Rush
At ninety, he’s proud of his Louisiana roots
Magazine
Poetry by Julie Kane
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
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Looking Down on Creation
Ben Depp is the Documentary Photographer of the Year
