Spring 2017
About Our Cover
- The World of William Joyce by Brian Boyles
- Memories from the Frontlines
- The Corps Takes the Teche: Designing Louisiana’s Most Famous Waterway by Shane K. Bernard
- Susan Tucker: Taking Care of History by Susan Larson
- Eric Waters: Photographs of Reverence and Remembrance Introduction by Stanley Taylor
Contents
A Master of Place
A New Orleans Griot Returns to Print
Queen of Creole Cuisine
Sinister Scenesters
Departments
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Articles
Magazine
Eric Waters
The New Orleans native captures the survival of a culture.
Magazine
Taking Care of History
The longtime archivist and editor is this year's LEH Lifetime Achievement awardee
Disturbance in Your Mind
Sinister Scenesters
A brief history of Process Church's time in the French Quarter
Spring 2017
Culture: Northwest Louisiana is Crushing It!
Critical Mass 5, murals, and tours make Spring 2017 a frenetic season of events in Shreveport
Magazine
Memories from the Frontlines
LEH Documentary Film of the Year chronicles AIDS activism in northwest Louisiana.
Spring 2017
The Goddesses at 100
An exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum focuses on the evolution of women’s krewes in New Orleans from the 1890s to the present
Spring 2017
A Master of Place
First major retrospective of James Michalopoulos opens at Ogden
Spring 2017
Regina Scully Connects with Japanese Art and a NOMA Curator
The museum’s ties to this young New Orleans painter have grown even closer, thanks to a collaboration initiated by the curator
Magazine
The World of William Joyce
From Shreveport to the Oscars and back again
Foodways
Queen of Creole Cuisine
Nellie Murray was a celebrated chef in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Book Excerpt
The Corps Takes the Teche
The Army Corp of Engineers, showboats, and the designing of a Louisiana waterway
Geographer's Space
A Mysterious Switch
An investigation of Louisiana’s change from counties to parishes
Spring 2017
A New Orleans Griot Returns to Print
The Historic New Orleans Collection publishes new edition of Danny Barker’s autobiography
