Winter 2019

About Our Cover
Lafayette artist Denise Gallagher designed Notre Dame d’Hiver (Our Lady of Winter) in honor of Louisiana’s most festive season.
Contents
A House on Royal Street
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana: Preserving the Past to Make Way for the Future
Glitter and Be Gay
Departments
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Articles
Geographer's Space

One Night in Louisiana
Abe Lincoln’s bloody melee
Sound Advice

Bust Fund Babies
The Grateful Dead got a sour reception in New Orleans
Shreveport Regional Arts Council

Critical Mass 8
Cultivating creativity and community

The Walls
Louisiana’s first state prison survives in archival images
Historic New Orleans Collection

Photographic Pioneer
An early New Orleans shutterbug was also an Ursuline nun
Parish Spotlight

The Lake Charles Special
Record producer Eddie Shuler welcomed weirdness into Goldband Studio
CODOFIL

“Je me sens chez moi ici en Louisiane”
Nigerien Moussa Sadou makes a home for himself in Louisiana
Bookstand

Freedom on the Move in Louisiana
Archived notices of people escpaing slavery plot a geography of resistance

A House on Royal Street
A historic renovation brings the past to the present
Lost Lit

Sea Changes
Shirley Ann Grau’s debut novel evokes the coast

The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana: Preserving the Past to Make Way for the Future
An interview with Bertney and Linda Langley
Poetry

All Black Boys Look Alike
Work by the new Poet Laureate of Louisiana
Parish Spotlight

A Love Letter to Tensas Parish
A sculptor remembers a riverside boyhood
Coastal

The End of the Great River
A photographer looks at the changing landscapes of the river’s final miles
Arts Council of Northeast Louisiana

Sounds of the Season
The Monroe Symphony Orchestra

Glitter and Be Gay
A gay Mardi Gras krewe shines in Acadiana’s capital
Lexicon

Do Creoles Speak Creole?
Another look at language and identity
Parish Spotlight

Preserving Our Roots
John Coykendall’s life in plants
Foodways

New Orleans Street Vendors
A long history of African American entrepreneurship
Education

Introducing Louisiana Musical Legends
The LEH presents a new K–12 curriculum focusing on the sounds of the state

A Studio in the Woods
How artists are making science more accessible