Fall 2025
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The fall 2025 “Innovation” issue explores the use of AI for sugarcane farming, utilizing 3D mapping to preserve historic dance halls, and the dramatic rise and fall of the Capital One Tower in Lake Charles.
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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
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Should Sugarcane Sing
Louisiana’s most notorious crop resists automation
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Rita and Her Ruins
Remembering Hurricane Rita’s impact on southwest Louisiana, twenty years later
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Saving the Last Dance
Technology offers new potential for preserving Louisiana dance halls
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Living the Chimp Life
Over three hundred chimpanzees find a home in Keithville
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Lady Nellie’s Legacy
Justin Trosclair is an oyster farmer for the twenty-first century
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Sunk Coast Fallacy
Ned Randolph’s Muddy Thinking probes a legacy of extraction in South Louisiana
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Honoring Culture Bearers
Each October, Folklife Month recognizes Louisianans keeping their culture alive
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Amazing Stories, Visionary Art
HNOC’s Daniel Galouye Papers
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Pâté of the South
Beloved by Louisiana, pimento cheese has unexpected origins
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A Lavender World
Carl Corley’s A Chosen World is his most autobiographical book
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“Fleur”
Artist Leslie Charleville preserves Louisiana wildlife using the traditional Japanese art of gyotaku
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Poetry by Katie Bickham
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
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Funky, Clean, Lean, and Beautiful
The eclectic guitar mastery of James Burton
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How Vallecillo Became Zwolle
Origins of Western Louisiana communities
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Beyond the Botanical
Mare Martin’s connection with the natural realm
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Earth Wrinkles
Artist Kaithlyn Cortez inspires hope in a beautiful and fragile world
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Of Liberty and Libraries
The Noel Collection and the spirit of 1776
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On the Horizon
The rise & fall of the Lake Charles Capital One Tower
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Perennial Heartbreak and Renewal
Twenty years of post-Katrina New Orleans
