Winter 2025
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The winter 2025 issue includes the lives of tug and mooring crews on the Mississippi River, the impact of Grambling University’s Baseball Coach Ellis, and the “Wildest Show in the South,” the Angola Prison Rodeo.
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
Winter 2025
Tugs and Lines
Working from home, on the river
Winter 2025
The Wildest Show
The controversial chaos of the Angola Prison Rodeo
Winter 2025
More Than a Game
Coach Wilbert Ellis and the legacy of Grambling State University baseball
Winter 2025
Introducing Louisiana Poet Laureate Gina Ferrara
Ferrara’s poetry captures the aesthetic beauty of life in Louisiana
Winter 2025
The Decadent Double Dealer
New Orleans’s national literary magazine of the 1920s
Winter 2025
A. Miner Second Line
Allison Miner (1949–1995), the woman who shaped Jazz Fest’s legacy
Winter 2025
Reclaiming Ancestral Land
Dr. Joy and Jo Banner of The Descendants Project purchase Woodland Plantation
Winter 2025
Louisiana’s Hilliest Municipality
A topographic visit to Harrisonburg
Winter 2025
A Short Tour of Louisiana Jambalaya
Origins & proliferation of Louisiana’s popular rice dish
Winter 2025
Bike Around the Basin
A proposed 187-mile trail uses levee tops as guide through the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
Winter 2025
Black Sunday
The runaway success of a fictional terrorist plot on Tulane Stadium
Winter 2025
Louisiana v. the Franchise
New HNOC exhibition revisits the origins of the Voting Rights Act
Winter 2025
From the Ashes
Excerpt from New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
Winter 2025
Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters, Up Close and In Person
Upcoming displays at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
Winter 2025
The Louisiana Music Museum
A museum of Louisiana music makes its way to Lafayette
Winter 2025
The Womack Family
Preserving the tradition of cane syrup making in St. Helena Parish
Winter 2025
Bonfires on the Levee, 1930s
The longstanding winter tradition continues to light up the River Parishes
