Disasters
2016 Floods
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
St. John the Baptist
St. John the Baptist Index
Folklife
Creole Folktales
Many Louisiana Creole folktales represent a convergence of African and European culture.
Architecture
San Francisco Plantation
The San Francisco Plantation name is derived from the term "sans fruscins" meaning "without a cent" or "having lost everything," possibly alluding to the high cost of the house.
Literature
Sidonie de la Houssaye
Sidonie de la Houssaye wrote about nineteenth-century Creole society.
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