Fall 2023
About Our Cover
This pin depicts Seymore D. Fair, the pelican mascot of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Contents
Lost
“New Orleans Threw a Party and Nobody Came”
Eye in the Sky
Into Thin Air
“Land of the Defunct Orange Tree and Ice-Burdened Palmetto”
Departments
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Articles
De-Satch-uration
Louis Armstrong’s complicated relationship with New Orleans
Lost
What the ivory-billed woodpecker can teach us about the unknown
“New Orleans Threw a Party and Nobody Came”
The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition
Eye in the Sky
A Houma-based blimp squadron
Into Thin Air
The loss of Shreveport’s C. C. Antoine House highlights a need to protect vulnerable historical sites
“Land of the Defunct Orange Tree and Ice-Burdened Palmetto”
The Great Arctic Outbreak of 1899
Poetry by Gina Ferrara
Selected by outgoing Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
Lincoln Parish Turns 150
A century and a half for the Reconstruction-era parish
Silent No More
Uncovering Black history in Iberia Parish
“Why Don’t You Come on Over, Valerie?”
How Thibodaux’s cathedral obtained its patroness
Always on the Threshold
“God, don’t let me die before I do something useful.”
Fall 2023
From Angola to the Smithsonian
Self-taught artist Welmon Sharlhorne
Celebrating Folklife Month
Honoring those maintaining Louisiana’s cultural richness
I Am What I Nyam
Sweet potatoes are not yams—usually
Closing Time
A review of Jake Bittle’s The Great Displacement
Louisiana as Scholarly Inspiration
The sojourn of Élisée Reclus
Lee Allen Zeno Adds the Groove Glue
Diverse, inventive, rock-solid, and soulful
“A Very Nice Lady”
The Chris Owens legacy
“I am going to do something for you.”
An excerpt from Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU by Robert Mann
Critical Mass 8 Best of Show Visual Artist Joe Bluhm Has His Head in the Clouds
Joe Bluhm and Dominique McLemore exhibit at artspace in downtown Shreveport
Knowing Who We Are: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition
On view at Ogden Museum of Southern Art through February 2024
