Spring 2019
![Cover for Spring 2019](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Spring-2019-Cover-594x784.jpg)
About Our Cover
2019 Humanist of the Year Darrell Bourque at his home in Church Point. Photo by Akasha Rabut.
Contents
A Cajun Girl’s Sharecropping Years
Treading Water
Seeing the Sweet with the Bitter
A Resource Rich and Varied
Love Letter to Leroy Jones
Eight Thousand Books
Darrell Bourque
Gregory Kallenberg, Champion of Culture
Departments
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Articles
![Changing Course for the Tricentennial](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LEAD_Changing-Course-330x190.jpg)
Changing Course for the Tricentennial
NOMA awarded Museum Exhibition of the Year
![Poetry by Darrell Bourque](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/2Replacement_Bourque-330x190.jpg)
Poetry by Darrell Bourque
Poetry by the 2019 Humanist of the Year.
![A Cajun Girl’s Sharecropping Years](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG1BookYearCover-e1551371971228-330x190.jpg)
A Cajun Girl’s Sharecropping Years
A first-time writer pens a vivid portrait of her Acadiana childhood
Historic New Orleans Collection
![Suzanne Douvillier](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Suzanne-WEB-2-330x190.jpg)
Suzanne Douvillier
The extraordinary life of a pioneering ballerina
Shreveport Regional Arts Council
![Poetic License](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/AMH-WEB-330x190.jpg)
Poetic License
Ashley Mace Havird is the current Caddo Parish Poet Laureate
Geographer's Space
![The Speed of Culture](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/JollyFlatboatmen-330x190.gif)
The Speed of Culture
Two centuries ago, commerce and culture moved at the Mississippi’s pace
Alexandria Museum of Art
![Connected Visions: Louisiana’s Artistic Lineage](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Caped-Crusader-100-x-77-330x190.jpg)
Connected Visions: Louisiana’s Artistic Lineage
A new exhibit shows off Alexandria Museum of Art’s enviable permanent collection
Newcomb Art Museum
![Art for Humanity’s Sake](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Yogibear2-330x190.jpg)
Art for Humanity’s Sake
Newcomb Art Museum’s new exhibition addresses critical issues facing incarcerated or formerly incarcerated women
Louisiana Architecture Foundation
![Acadian Modernism](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/First-Christian-Churc_1960_FrankLotzMiller-330x190.jpg)
Acadian Modernism
Architect John Desmond made a modernist style just for Louisiana
Louisiana State Museum
![A Spanish Father and a Creole Daughter’s Monumental Legacies in New Orleans](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/1_C.2.5_full-330x190.png)
A Spanish Father and a Creole Daughter’s Monumental Legacies in New Orleans
An exhibition at the Cabildo looks at the Pontalbas’ architectural influence
Parish Spotlight
![Look at Little Sister](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LGL4-330x190.jpg)
Look at Little Sister
Linda Gail rocks her way out of Jerry Lee’s shadow
Coastal
![Treading Water](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/1_VERDIN-2_GrandmothersHouse-330x190.jpg)
Treading Water
A local reflects on St. Bernard Parish’s generations-long struggle to stay afloat
![Seeing the Sweet with the Bitter](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LEAD_Cypremort-330x190.jpg)
Seeing the Sweet with the Bitter
Photographer Frank Relle sees beauty as crucial to his craft—and his message
![A Resource Rich and Varied](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/1_Lifetime-Contribution-330x190.jpg)
A Resource Rich and Varied
Dr. Hiram F. Gregory receives award for Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities
Sound Advice
![Music with Porous Boundaries](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Corey-Ledet-CD-cover-WEB-330x190.jpg)
Music with Porous Boundaries
The proud eclecticism of John Fohl and Corey Ledet
Masur Museum of Art
![Monroe’s Marvelous Masur](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Masur-WEB-330x190.jpg)
Monroe’s Marvelous Masur
An impressive art collection in a locally unique historic house
![Love Letter to Leroy Jones](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LEAD_Leroy-Jones-1-e1551371690852-330x190.jpg)
Love Letter to Leroy Jones
The trumpet legend shines in Cameron Washington’s documentary
![Eight Thousand Books](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/2B_LEH-Education-330x190.jpg)
Eight Thousand Books
Light Up for Literacy Award goes to Dr. Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell
Disturbance in Your Mind
![High Among the Angels](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/AngelTrumpet_Mounts_Asit-330x190.gif)
High Among the Angels
Brugmansia aren’t your garden-variety gateway drug
![Darrell Bourque](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LEAD_Bourque-330x190.jpg)
Darrell Bourque
The 2019 Humanist of the Year talks about music, memory, and the power of storytelling
![Gregory Kallenberg, Champion of Culture](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LEAD_Champion-of-Culture-330x190.gif)
Gregory Kallenberg, Champion of Culture
The Shreveport visionary’s Prize Fest has incentivized innovation
Parish Spotlight
![From Dolls to High Heels](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/MG_3558full_reduced-for-web-330x190.jpg)
From Dolls to High Heels
Making quinceañeras in Union Parish
Lost Lit
![Moonlight, Magnolias, and Marxism on the Bayou Teche](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/1_Book-Cover-e1550682404841-330x190.jpg)
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Marxism on the Bayou Teche
Barbara Giles’ The Gentle Bush rewrites Gone With the Wind