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Buddy Bolden
Cornetist Buddy Bolden was the first documented player of New Orleans jazz.
Cornetist Buddy Bolden was the first documented player of New Orleans jazz.
An Indigenous name for the area most often known in English as New Orleans.
The Butler Greenwood plantation house is built in the Gothic Revival style, popular in the St. Francisville area.
Louisiana's Calvin Borel is the only jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times in a four-year span.
On May 23, 1934, fugitives Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were captured by law enforcement officers in Bienville Parish.
Charles Bukowski came to New Orleans in 1942 on his first cross-country trips and returned to the city many times over the years.
Cleanth Brooks, one of the foremost American literary critics of the twentieth century, spent fifteen years as a professor in the English Department at Louisiana State University (LSU).
Dr. Darrell Bourque was appointed poet laureate of Louisiana by Governor Kathleen Blanco in 2007.
A longtime pillar of the New Orleans rhythm and blues community, Dave Bartholomew was a trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer, bandleader, and astute businessman.
Well known in for his audaciously decorated home and lawn, David Butler fashioned whimsical, brightly painted assemblages from salvaged roofing tin to become one of the twentieth century's most widely collected self-taught artists.
Dewey Balfa was a Cajun musician and cultural activist who emerged in the 1970s as an effective spokesman for the grassroots Cajun identity movement.
Douglas Bourgeois is a Louisiana painter, collage artist, and sculptor known for his intimately scaled, highly detailed, and meticulously crafted works.
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