Fall 2020
About Our Cover
Our fall 2020 issue of 64 Parishes presents a closer look at the folklife traditions of Louisiana. We open with a recognition of the six individuals and groups honored this year by the Louisiana Folklife Commission, then proceed to explore the complex history of Acadian brown cotton, the work of hoop-net fishermen in Avoyelles Parish, West African-rooted Easter Rock traditions, and the emergence of Eunice’s Liberty Theatre as a venue for Louisiana’s traditional music. We also continue our Split Press series on race and citizenship in the media with with the story of Black-owned newspapers’ involvement in civil rights work shortly after emancipation.
The issue also includes:
- Rien Fertel introduces us to Nik Cohn, a rock journalist obsessed with New Orleans
- An excerpt of new encyclopedia content, presenting the sad story of the Troyville Earthworks
- A tribute to Morgus the Magnificent, New Orleans’s horror host extraordinaire
- A thumbnail history of the Canary Islands, which provided many of Louisiana’s Spanish migrants
- Poetry by Brad Richard
- Richard Campanella tells us how Louisiana got the top of its boot
- Jessica B. Harris takes us along for a Red Beans Road Show
- Katy Reckdahl reports on duck decoy carvers in Lafourche Parish
- Ben Sandmel reminisces about his tenure with the seven-decade Hackberry Ramblers
Plus stories by our partners at The Historic New Orleans Collection, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Northeast Louisiana Arts Council, Pontchartrain Conservancy, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
The current issue of 64 Parishes is available at retail outlets across Louisiana or can be ordered through the LEH for $5.95 plus shipping. In stock back issues are also available for $6.95. To order email [email protected] or call 1.800.909.7990 or 504.523.4352 ext. 110.
Departments
- Parish Spotlights
- Bookstand
- Coastal
- Education
- Foodways
- Geographer's Space
- Lost Lit
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art
- Poetry
- Sound Advice
Partner Content
The current issue of 64 Parishes is available at retail outlets across Louisiana or can be ordered through the LEH for $5.95 plus shipping. In stock back issues are also available for $6.95. To order visit 64parishes.org/subscribe or call 1.800.909.7990 or 504.356.0505.
Articles
Acadian Brown Cotton
The fabric of Acadiana
Magazine
October is Folklife Month
Louisiana honors its culture bearers
Top of the Boot
Louisiana’s original state line
artspace
Seventeen years giving Shreveport a broader sense of self and art
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
Eighteen Years of Hackberry Rambling
The gift of playing with venerable innovators
Fall 2020
Gustave Blache III Scholarship
Supporting aspiring Louisiana artists
United for Justice
How two Black-owned newspapers launched Louisiana’s civil rights struggle
Rockin’ to a Risen Savior
The Louisiana Delta Easter Rock
The Schepis Museum
A historic house and museum in Columbia, Louisiana
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
The Liberty Theatre
Acadiana’s “Temple of Amusement”
Education
Cultivating Understanding Through Children’s Books
PRIME TIME suggestions for helping children through difficult times
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
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