Fall 2022
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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”
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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
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
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