Fall 2020
About Our Cover
Blankets made from Acadian brown cotton. Photo by James Edmunds.
Departments
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Articles
Acadian Brown Cotton
The fabric of Acadiana
Magazine
October is Folklife Month
Louisiana honors its culture bearers
artspace
Seventeen years giving Shreveport a broader sense of self and art
Top of the Boot
Louisiana’s original state line
Coastal
Decoy Dynasty
The unsung art of duck decoy carving
The Canary Islands
Louisiana’s Isleños trace their roots to a storied archipelago
Taking It on the Road
The Red Beans Road Show
Historic New Orleans Collection
Lost Friends
Free people sought reunion with friends and family after emancipation
Fall 2020
Gustave Blache III Scholarship
Supporting aspiring Louisiana artists
Eighteen Years of Hackberry Rambling
The gift of playing with venerable innovators
United for Justice
How two Black-owned newspapers launched Louisiana’s civil rights struggle
The Schepis Museum
A historic house and museum in Columbia, Louisiana
Rockin’ to a Risen Savior
The Louisiana Delta Easter Rock
Pontchartrain Conservancy
Environmental education in southeast Louisiana
Bookstand
Digging Up the Roots of the Family Tree
An author comes to terms with a Klansman in the family
Entwined
Ritual wrapping and binding in contemporary southern art
River Harvest
Hoop net fishing in Avoyelles Parish
Education
Cultivating Understanding Through Children’s Books
PRIME TIME suggestions for helping children through difficult times
The Liberty Theatre
Acadiana’s “Temple of Amusement”
Poetry by Brad Richard
Racial violence in New Orleans in 1900 and 2005
Obsessed with New Orleans
Rock journalist Nik Cohn’s Triksta chronicles a chapter in the city’s hip hop history
Morgus the Magnificent
New Orleans’s answer to Elvira and Joe Bob Briggs
