Summer 2023
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About Our Cover
Publicity photo of Louis Prima with a trumpet. Hogan Jazz Archive, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University.
Contents
Cajun Culture Bearers
The Rost Home Colony
Louis Prima and the Sicilian Sound
Liberation on Their Own Terms
A Bar Called Charlene’s
A Scholar and an Advocate
Hands in Sacred Dirt
A Champion in the Senate
Sharing the Range
The Power of One
Departments
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Articles
![Une place à la table](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/P1140636-330x190.jpg)
Une place à la table
French tables help perpetuate Louisiana’s linguistic heritage
![Immunocapitalism](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Necropolis-Cover-330x190.jpg)
Immunocapitalism
The Humanities Book of the Year is Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius
![Cajun Culture Bearers](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/rootsfire-1-330x190.jpg)
Cajun Culture Bearers
Roots of Fire is the LEH Documentary Film of the Year
Magazine
![An Invention You Can Pour](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/2.VC-LOBBY-BAR-330x190.jpg)
An Invention You Can Pour
An excerpt from The Vieux Carré by John DeMers
![From Freeman and Harris to Orlandeaux’s](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Freeman-and-Harris-Cafe-Bonus-Image-No-Charge-330x190.jpg)
From Freeman and Harris to Orlandeaux’s
A Shreveport family upholds more than a culinary legacy
![The Rost Home Colony](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/00000001-2-330x190.jpg)
The Rost Home Colony
The rise and fall of a Reconstruction experiment
![Summer Nights and a Salute to Henry Price](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/henryPXL_20230210_192154638-330x190.jpg)
Summer Nights and a Salute to Henry Price
The man who shines his light on NWLA arts and artists
![Louis Prima and the Sicilian Sound](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/PH003593-330x190.jpg)
Louis Prima and the Sicilian Sound
The influence of Italian immigration on jazz and swing
Magazine
![The Case of the Electrified All Girl Band](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/AGB-scan-330x190.jpg)
The Case of the Electrified All Girl Band
The mystery of a two-hit wonder
Poetry by Chuck Perkins
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
![Five Acres and a Mill](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Konda-in-front-of-new-rice-seedlings-1-330x190.jpg)
Five Acres and a Mill
Organic rice cultivation in Rapides Parish
![Liberation on Their Own Terms](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_4287-330x190.jpg)
Liberation on Their Own Terms
Freedom on the Move is the 2023 Best in Digital Humanities awardee
![Why Is Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish?](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Parish-Topography-map_Campanella-330x190.jpg)
Why Is Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish?
Notes on parish topography
![American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Bloody-Massacre-A.1.2.0029-1-330x190.jpg)
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Examining democracy in a traveling exhibition
![Creole New Orleans, Honey! The Art of Andrew LaMar Hopkins](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Creole-Kitchen--330x190.jpg)
Creole New Orleans, Honey! The Art of Andrew LaMar Hopkins
A self-taught artist explores Louisiana’s Creole past
![A Bar Called Charlene’s](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/KIC-Images-0001-2-330x190.jpg)
A Bar Called Charlene’s
The lesbian dive that became a nexus for gay rights in New Orleans
![Where the Locals Eat](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/20220831_120931-330x190.jpg)
Where the Locals Eat
Monroe’s Mohawk Tavern
![Diet Gospel](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9886-1-330x190.jpg)
Diet Gospel
H. Leighton Steward’s Sugar Busters!
![A Scholar and an Advocate](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/headshot-2-1-330x190.jpg)
A Scholar and an Advocate
Marianne Fisher-Giorlando is the 2023 Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee
![Hands in Sacred Dirt](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Harrisonburg-Mound-in-snow_16-bit-1-330x190.jpg)
Hands in Sacred Dirt
Documentary Photographer of the Year Jenny Ellerbe’s images of Native American mounds
![A Champion in the Senate](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Dist24-1-1-330x190.jpg)
A Champion in the Senate
Introducing the 2023 Champion of Culture, State Senator Gerald Boudreaux
![Sharing the Range](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/LUC17731-330x190.jpg)
Sharing the Range
Chef John Folse is the LEH’s 2023 Humanist of the Year
![The Power of One](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/MeaganHoltREG-850x1024-2-330x190.jpg)
The Power of One
Megan Holt is the 2023 Light Up for Literacy awardee