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
