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
