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