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