Summer 2024
![Cover for Summer 2024](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/64P_24_SUM24_COV_POSTER-594x788.jpg)
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](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/BP2_6016-330x190.png)
To the Limits of the Saxophone
Musician, photographer, Renaissance man, and Humanist of the Year Dickie Landry
![Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/7-Sisters_5311-10x14-1-330x190.png)
Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks
Story-laden trees anchor the Louisiana landscape
![New Orleans as a Nexus of Power](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Marketplace-1979.212-330x190.png)
New Orleans as a Nexus of Power
American Empire, Bananas, and the Crescent City
![The Man Who Won The National WWII Museum](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Dr-330x190.png)
The Man Who Won The National WWII Museum
Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD, is the 2024 Champion of Culture
![Making Eyes Light Up](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Jane-Wolfe-1_Photo-by-Cheryl-Gerber-330x190.png)
Making Eyes Light Up
Jane Wolfe is the Light Up for Literacy awardee
![Indigenous Internationalism](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Great-Power-of-Small-Nations_cover-330x190.png)
Indigenous Internationalism
Elizabeth Ellis’s "The Great Power of Small Nations" named the 2024 Humanities Book of the Year
![Celebrating Creole Culture](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Gallery3-330x190.png)
Celebrating Creole Culture
"Creole New Orleans, Honey!" named Museum Exhibition of the Year
![A Divine Epiphany](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Photo-by-Freddye-Hill_2-330x190.png)
A Divine Epiphany
Freddi Williams Evans is the Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee
![What More Do You Need?](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Precipice-330x190.png)
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](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Carter-Family-on-Festival-Main-Stage-1984_cropped-330x190.png)
Keeping the Culture
"The old songs live forever"
Summer 2024
![Confessionals, Baseball, and Forever-Spreading Suburbs](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/iStock-458404587-330x190.jpg)
Confessionals, Baseball, and Forever-Spreading Suburbs
Andre Dubus's Lafayette stories
Magazine
![Ils Sont Partis](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019.0362.119_o2-330x190.jpg)
Ils Sont Partis
Bush tracks of South Louisiana
![Give Me Louisiana](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/62153-330x190.png)
Give Me Louisiana
The ballad of Louisiana’s former state song
![The Last Thing I’ll Ever Write About Stuffed Shrimp](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Orlandeauxs_Oct5-330x190.png)
The Last Thing I’ll Ever Write About Stuffed Shrimp
One writer’s crabmeat-filled obsession
![The Moncla Gap](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Red-River-at-Moncla-Gap_photo-by-Richard-Campanella-1-330x190.png)
The Moncla Gap
Of rivers, shifts, and avulsions
![Bienvenue en Louisiane](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/20240307_CODOFIL_ORIG-330x190.png)
Bienvenue en Louisiane
Francophone developments in Louisiana tourism
![A Gift for the Ages](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/1996.122-330x190.png)
A Gift for the Ages
The legacy of Laura Simon Nelson
![The Gumbo Family Tree](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/Figure-1-gumbo-DOYLE-38-330x190.png)
The Gumbo Family Tree
An excerpt from "Gumbo" by Jonathan Olivier
![Grammy-Winning Bluesman Bobby Rush](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/srac-summer-330x190.png)
Grammy-Winning Bluesman Bobby Rush
At ninety, he’s proud of his Louisiana roots
Magazine
![Poetry by Julie Kane](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/2BXJP54-330x190.png)
Poetry by Julie Kane
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
![Looking Down on Creation](https://64parishes.org/wp-content/uploads/DSC06120-330x190.png)
Looking Down on Creation
Ben Depp is the Documentary Photographer of the Year