Fall 2024
About Our Cover
Tina Girouard, Detail of Damballa, 1991–1992. Estate of Tina Girouard, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Contents
Abdalla’s: A Store for All Seasons
Building with Bagasse
“Poison Portraits”
Dreams of Zines
José Francisco Xavier de Salazar Y Mendoza
Honoring Culture Bearers
Departments
The current issue of 64 Parishes is available for $6.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Back issues of 64 Parishes and Louisiana Cultural Vistas are available for $7.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Note that supplies are limited on some issues. To order call 504-523-4352 or email [email protected].
Articles
Fall 2024
Introducing the Visual Arts Issue
Featuring the art of Randell Henry
Fall 2024
Time Capsules on Canvas
The fight to preserve Louisiana artist legacies
Fall 2024
Abdalla’s: A Store for All Seasons
The Lebanese-owned department store that became a Southwest Louisiana staple
Fall 2024
Artists of Public Memory
Public art commissions from Prospect
Fall 2024
Poetry by Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
Fall 2024
Building with Bagasse
A Marrero company found sweet success with sugarcane fiber until the walls tumbled down
Fall 2024
“Poison Portraits”
A toxic silhouette album provides an intimate look at early Louisianans
Fall 2024
Looking Down and Back
The history and preservation of New Orleans’s ceramic street tiles
Fall 2024
Salt of the Earth
In Winn Parish, an ancient salt dome has sustained life for centuries
Fall 2024
Dreams of Zines
Underground publications offer a window into Louisiana communities
Fall 2024
José Francisco Xavier de Salazar Y Mendoza
The portrait artist who immortalized the faces of Spanish colonial Louisiana
Current Issue
Honoring Culture Bearers
Each October, Folklife Month recognizes Louisianans keeping the culture
Fall 2024
A Different Kind of Buffalo
One person’s trash fish is another’s delicacy
Fall 2024
“A Game with Death”
The murder mystery novel that gripped Depression-era New Orleans
Fall 2024
A Major Milestone for the Music of French Louisiana
Fifty years of Festivals Acadiens et Créoles
Fall 2024
All Aboard
In Houma, LUMCON hopes to train up a sea-savvy citizenry
Fall 2024
Louisiana’s Place in the Below-Sea-Level World
Notes on a topographic peculiarity
Fall 2024
The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
Prospect’s sixth edition of the citywide triennial
Fall 2024
The Witching Hour
An excerpt from Nocturnal New Orleans
Fall 2024
Boom or Bust in Shreveport
Artists and fabricators push boundaries of creativity along Boom or Bust Byway
Fall 2024
Twenty Years of the Louisiana Book Festival
Louisiana’s flagship literary festival starts a new chapter
