Spring 2019
About Our Cover
2019 Humanist of the Year Darrell Bourque at his home in Church Point. Photo by Akasha Rabut.
Contents
A Cajun Girl’s Sharecropping Years
Treading Water
Seeing the Sweet with the Bitter
A Resource Rich and Varied
Love Letter to Leroy Jones
Eight Thousand Books
Darrell Bourque
Gregory Kallenberg, Champion of Culture
Departments
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Articles
Changing Course for the Tricentennial
NOMA awarded Museum Exhibition of the Year
Poetry by Darrell Bourque
Poetry by the 2019 Humanist of the Year.
A Cajun Girl’s Sharecropping Years
A first-time writer pens a vivid portrait of her Acadiana childhood
Historic New Orleans Collection
Suzanne Douvillier
The extraordinary life of a pioneering ballerina
Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Poetic License
Ashley Mace Havird is the current Caddo Parish Poet Laureate
Geographer's Space
The Speed of Culture
Two centuries ago, commerce and culture moved at the Mississippi’s pace
Alexandria Museum of Art
Connected Visions: Louisiana’s Artistic Lineage
A new exhibit shows off Alexandria Museum of Art’s enviable permanent collection
Newcomb Art Museum
Art for Humanity’s Sake
Newcomb Art Museum’s new exhibition addresses critical issues facing incarcerated or formerly incarcerated women
Louisiana Architecture Foundation
Acadian Modernism
Architect John Desmond made a modernist style just for Louisiana
Louisiana State Museum
A Spanish Father and a Creole Daughter’s Monumental Legacies in New Orleans
An exhibition at the Cabildo looks at the Pontalbas’ architectural influence
Parish Spotlight
Look at Little Sister
Linda Gail rocks her way out of Jerry Lee’s shadow
Coastal
Treading Water
A local reflects on St. Bernard Parish’s generations-long struggle to stay afloat
Seeing the Sweet with the Bitter
Photographer Frank Relle sees beauty as crucial to his craft—and his message
A Resource Rich and Varied
Dr. Hiram F. Gregory receives award for Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities
Sound Advice
Music with Porous Boundaries
The proud eclecticism of John Fohl and Corey Ledet
Masur Museum of Art
Monroe’s Marvelous Masur
An impressive art collection in a locally unique historic house
Love Letter to Leroy Jones
The trumpet legend shines in Cameron Washington’s documentary
Eight Thousand Books
Light Up for Literacy Award goes to Dr. Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell
Disturbance in Your Mind
High Among the Angels
Brugmansia aren’t your garden-variety gateway drug
Darrell Bourque
The 2019 Humanist of the Year talks about music, memory, and the power of storytelling
Gregory Kallenberg, Champion of Culture
The Shreveport visionary’s Prize Fest has incentivized innovation
Parish Spotlight
From Dolls to High Heels
Making quinceañeras in Union Parish
Lost Lit
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Marxism on the Bayou Teche
Barbara Giles’ The Gentle Bush rewrites Gone With the Wind
