Summer 2022
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An aerial view of West Cote Blanche Bay, which may someday see the arrival of wind power infrastructure. Photo by Zack Smith.
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Articles
In-Person Programs Return
Renewing connections, expanding impact
Transfer of Souls
Erna Brodber’s Louisiana
Batmania
Batman Black and White: The Sketch Covers
Widow’s Mite
Freedwoman Eliza Dorsey’s struggle for a Civil War pension
Safe Haven
Reflections on Louisiana Green Book sites
The Helis Foundation John Scott Center Opens
A new interactive gathering space will showcase the artist’s life and work
Exit Stage Right
Zack Smith’s festival photographs
An Urban Landmark, Reframed
An Urban Landmark, Reframed
Poems by Jennifer Reeser
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
Getting (Away from) the Vapors
The ancient medical theory behind the Louisiana landscape’s transformation
The Nile Comes to Bayou St. John
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Queen Nefertari’s Egypt
Cooking Up a Storm with Jarred Zeringue
Rebuilding a smokehouse after Hurricane Ida
Who Belongs to the Good Earth?
A Houma museum commemorates the parish’s Black heritage
Magazine
Une danse de la pluie
A poem by the Poet Laureate of French Louisiana
A Lot of Saxophones
Cecilia’s own saxophonist Dickie Landry
Amédé Was the King
Creole musician Amédé Ardoin’s legacy
In the Wind
A petroleum state explores wind power
Peaches Records
A record store acts as a musical and social nexus
The Hatchet Heroine
Carrie Nation invades New Orleans
Trying to Pocket the Key
Grant’s Canals and the assault on Vicksburg
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