Fall 2022

About Our Cover
Small glass beads (enlarged here) like these found at the Old Mobile site were an important good in premodern trade networks. Photo by Brian Pavlich.
Contents
Old Mobile
Looking Deeper at Poverty Point
Los Adaes
Buried Histories at Evergreen Plantation
“We’re All Sha-Ho Now”
Departments
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Articles

Prime Time and Museum on Main Street
Of, By, and For the People to pilot in Voices and Votes parishes this fall

The Reach of New Orleans Drumming: “He Taught Me a Lesson”
An Excerpt from Drumsville! by Robert H. Cataliotti
Magazine

Louisiana before Louisiana
The first European look at what became our state

A Fearless Creator of Fresh Material
Tommy McLain’s late-career classic

Cracklin’ Hound
The delights of fried pork skin

October Is Folklife Month
Honoring tradition bearers and those who preserve Louisiana culture

Monroe’s Miller–Roy Building
Chitlin’ Circuit heritage preserved in a mixed-use space

Memories of Nonc Tom’s
A photographer’s ’70s sojourn in Basile

Old Mobile
Archaeological treasures in Louisiana’s first capital

Looking Deeper at Poverty Point
Preservation-conscious technologies marry exploration and stewardship

Los Adaes
An old capital of Texas and center for Native trade

Buried Histories at Evergreen Plantation
Homes used for centuries tell of their past residents’ lives

Poetry by Cindy Levy
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy

“We’re All Sha-Ho Now”
The Caddo grass house, destroyed by a deadly tornado, reopens this fall

Great Balls of Fire
“La Fin du Monde,” the Red (or White) Scare, and the story of the Great Meteor of 1957

KaDavien Baylor’s Larger-Than-Life Mural Messages
KaDavien Baylor’s Larger-Than-Life Mural Messages

Object Care
A tale of erasure, restitution, and possible resolution

Nueva Orleans
A closer look at the city’s Spanish history

The Leg-Brace Saint
New Orleans’s St. Roch Chapel gets a facelift

Brief, Brutish, and Bacchic
Nancy Lemann’s Lives of the Saints