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