Summer 2024

About Our Cover
2024 Humanist of the Year Dickie Landry. Photo by Brian Pavlich.
Contents
Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks
New Orleans as a Nexus of Power
The Man Who Won The National WWII Museum
Making Eyes Light Up
Indigenous Internationalism
Celebrating Creole Culture
A Divine Epiphany
What More Do You Need?
Looking Down on Creation
Departments
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Articles

To the Limits of the Saxophone
Musician, photographer, Renaissance man, and Humanist of the Year Dickie Landry

Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks
Story-laden trees anchor the Louisiana landscape

New Orleans as a Nexus of Power
American Empire, Bananas, and the Crescent City

The Man Who Won The National WWII Museum
Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD, is the 2024 Champion of Culture

Making Eyes Light Up
Jane Wolfe is the Light Up for Literacy awardee

Indigenous Internationalism
Elizabeth Ellis’s "The Great Power of Small Nations" named the 2024 Humanities Book of the Year

Celebrating Creole Culture
"Creole New Orleans, Honey!" named Museum Exhibition of the Year

A Divine Epiphany
Freddi Williams Evans is the Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee

What More Do You Need?
The Precipice, the 2024 Documentary Film of the Year, documents the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe’s fight for federal recognition

Keeping the Culture
"The old songs live forever"
Summer 2024

Confessionals, Baseball, and Forever-Spreading Suburbs
Andre Dubus's Lafayette stories
Magazine

Ils Sont Partis
Bush tracks of South Louisiana

Give Me Louisiana
The ballad of Louisiana’s former state song

The Last Thing I’ll Ever Write About Stuffed Shrimp
One writer’s crabmeat-filled obsession

The Moncla Gap
Of rivers, shifts, and avulsions

Bienvenue en Louisiane
Francophone developments in Louisiana tourism

A Gift for the Ages
The legacy of Laura Simon Nelson

The Gumbo Family Tree
An excerpt from "Gumbo" by Jonathan Olivier

Grammy-Winning Bluesman Bobby Rush
At ninety, he’s proud of his Louisiana roots
Magazine

Poetry by Julie Kane
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

Looking Down on Creation
Ben Depp is the Documentary Photographer of the Year