Summer 2019

About Our Cover
A photo from the National Archives shows the entrance to Camp Livingston, an army base which also served as an internment camp for Japanese men during World War II.
Departments
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Articles
Parish Spotlight

DeRidder’s Gothic Jail
The “Hanging Jail” in Beauregard Parish offers architectural history and decades of ghost stories
Bookstand

Rethinking Reconstruction
A new history of Reconstruction in Louisiana and South Carolina reveals an alternative path not taken for US race relations
Bookstand

Listen Local
Louisiana-made podcasts provide a window into the inner life of the Bayou State
Parish Spotlight

The Shreveport Water Works Museum
A North Louisiana site preserves engineering history
Parish Spotlight

Cuts to Culture
Budget woes threaten the capital’s cultural institutions

Hidden in Plain Sight
Japanese internment in Louisiana during World War II

Nueva New Orleans
The role of Latino/as in rebuilding New Orleans
Lexicon

Do Cajuns Speak Cajun?
The complex relationship between language names and identity
Shreveport Regional Arts Council

Seeking Sanctuary
Award-winning glass artist Eric Hess curates artspace Summer of Glass
Parish Spotlight

An Ignominious Anniversary
2019 marks three hundred years since the arrival of the first slave ships in Louisiana
Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Piercing the Inner Wall
The art of Dusti Bongé
Magazine

Young Satchmo
Silent film clip appears to show Louis Armstrong as a teenager
Poetry

The Poetry of Cassie Pruyn
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell
Parish Spotlight

C’est Si Triste Sans Lui
Silk art by Megan Barra
Arts Council of Northeast Louisiana

Keep Cool with Cooley
A Prairie-style historic home in Northeast Louisiana
Sound Advice

The New Orleans Pop Festival
Fifty years since Louisiana’s Woodstock
Historic New Orleans Collection

THNOC Embraces the Contemporary
Art takes center stage as a new campus opens on Royal Street

The Many Lives of Marie Baron
A French orphan survived captivity in two countries to give an early testimonial of women’s experiences in colonial Louisiana
Geographer's Space

Putting the “64” in 64 Parishes
A geographical self-assessment
Lost Lit

Black and Blue
Between the covers with Steve Cannon
Hilliard Museum

Each Moment
The value of focus and presence in artistic work