Spring 2022
About Our Cover
2022 Humanist Ruby Bridges in New Orleans’s City Park. Photo by Akasha Rabut.
Contents
Fatima Shaik’s Economy Hall Named the 2022 LEH Humanities Book of the Year
Museum Exhibition of the Year
All’s Fair in Love and War
Be about Beauty
It’s 1861 Somewhere
Making Magic Happen
The Vanishing Black Bars of New Orleans
I’ll Play with You
Departments
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Articles
Magazine
John Barbry, Champion of Culture
A career spent advocating for Tunica–Biloxi traditions
Fatima Shaik’s Economy Hall Named the 2022 LEH Humanities Book of the Year
The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
Museum Exhibition of the Year
The permanent exhibition at the new Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
Coastal
How to Tarp the Past
Hurricane Ida forces public historians to make difficult decisions
All’s Fair in Love and War
French Quarter Sicilians and Italian POWs
Rooted in Louisiana
A conversation with Shreveport-native and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.
Saints, Tribes, and Kings
The origins of Louisiana parish names
Global Connections, Louisiana Roots
Honoring Joyce Marie Jackson, PhD, with a Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities Award
Coastal
Cultural Restoration
Homes and beaches can be rebuilt after Ida, but what about culture?
A Virtuoso from Vidalia
Children Still Play
What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana
Be about Beauty
Life and writing with Kalamu ya Salaam, LEH Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities Award winner
Mudbug Envy
A shellfish allergy renders a food columnist wistful
It’s 1861 Somewhere
The Neutral Ground is the LEH Documentary Film of the Year
Backstage at A Streetcar Named Desire
New THNOC exhibition goes backstage at a classic drama
Making Magic Happen
The 2022 Light Up for Literacy Award goes to Jeannine Pasini Beekman and Tracy Cunningham
The Vanishing Black Bars of New Orleans
The LEH Documentary Photographer of the Year chronicles community spaces under threat
Teacher, Sculptor, Sketcher, Builder
Bruce Allen is NWLA arts’ man for all seasons
Still Shouting “Stella!”
Celebrating A Streetcar Named Desire’s 75th anniversary
Spring 2022
I’ll Play with You
Ruby Bridges is the 2022 LEH Humanist of the Year
Poetry
Poetry by Gian Smith
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
Spring 2022
Springtime in New Iberia
Arts and culture blossom by the Teche
Parish Spotlight
Heirloom Variety
A St. Martin Parish farmer keeps Acadian brown cotton growing
Lexicon
Linguistic Kitsch
French, Yat, and other modes of speech add a je ne sais quoi to Louisiana’s culture—and marketing
Magazine
Wearing Masks 364 Days a Year
John Rechy's City of Night
Parish Spotlight
"Drink Your Juice, Shelby"
Natchitoches stars as a thinly veiled version of itself in Steel Magnolias
Spring 2022
It’s More Than Just Great Bass Fishing
Toledo Bend Reservoir is a keeper
