Winter 2022
About Our Cover
Lafayette artist Denise Gallagher designed this playful illustration of Louisiana animals participating in a winter celebration.
Departments
The current issue of 64 Parishes is available for $6.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Back issues of 64 Parishes and Louisiana Cultural Vistas are available for $7.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Note that supplies are limited on some issues. To order call 504-523-4352 or email [email protected].
Articles
Four Women and Their Languages
Lessons from the Houma Language Project
Brown Pelican
An excerpt from Rien Fertel’s latest book from LSU Press
Location Is Everything
The upcoming relocation and restoration of the Pacale–Roque House in Natchitoches will reshape the riverfront of Louisiana’s oldest city
A Bilingual Conspiracy?
The controversial kickoff to the twinning between Lafayette and Moncton, New Brunswick
Gone But Not Forgotten
Louisiana’s small cemeteries at risk in changing landscapes
Magazine
Between the Guitar Solo and the Ooh-La-La
Farewell to King Louie Bankston
Peace, Justice, and the Cajun Way
Tim Edler’s Crawfish-Man
What Might Have Happened at Manchac
New Orleans was nearly relocated to a site near Baton Rouge
Nose to Tail
A foodway born out of necessity is maintained as a tradition
Education
The Heart of Prime Time
Book series set the stage for every Prime Time program
Poetry by Sunni Patterson
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
The Dixie Mafia Lonely Hearts Scam
A personal-ad scam run out of Angola led to a double murder
“Don’t Let the Rain Fall on My Face”
The wooden grave houses of Talbert-Pierson Cemetery
Flipping the Narrative
Telling the story of urban enslavement
Local Stories, Global Industry
Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou by Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis
Step into the Notre-Dame Cathedral
An augmented reality experience at The Historic New Orleans Collection
I Wanted to Read About the South: Becoming a Writer
An excerpt from Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines, by Ruth Laney
Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers
New exhibition traces evolution of Black studio photography
Vive le français
Immersion programs seek to arrest French’s retreat from Louisiana
