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Evangeline Downs
From Bush Tracks to Bright Lights in Acadiana by Alan Broussard and Conni Castille Beginning in 1966, from the end of Lent through Memorial Day, the skies above the Evangeline Thruway north of...
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Top of the Hill
Louisiana is the third lowest, third flattest state–and, topographically, among the most fascinating by Richard Campanella Unless you live in the piney hills of northern Louisiana or the loess...
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An Inventive, Inspired Inundation
New Releases from Herlin Riley, Loretta Lynn and Dave Bartholomew by Ben Sandmel Like the mighty Mississippi, Louisiana’s musical flow crests each spring with the release of numerous new albums to...
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Another generation of farmers brings Creole tomatoes to market by Gwendolyn Knapp The Creole Tomato Festival returns June 11 for its 30th year at New Orleans’ historic French Market. The event...
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A Place of Oaks
Southwest Louisiana hunting clubs are focus of new history Book review by Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr. “In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when...
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Ogden Museum Showcases History of New Orleans Graffiti By Bradley Sumrall, Curator of the Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art In the mid-1960s, neighborhood gangs in Philadelphia began to use...
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Louisiana Olympians
by S. Derby Gisclair Louisiana has sent scores of athletes to the Olympics in every sport from baseball to figure skating. They travel to the games from small towns and big cities in every part of...
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by Michael Mizell-Nelson Examples of thrift appear in numerous classic offerings from Louisiana’s bakeries. Unused puff pastry is recycled as “shoe soles.” Some bakers bind leftover doughnuts...
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Homegrown Privileges Vanish in Exile
The History and Systems of Slavery Behind Wynton Marsalis’ Blood on the Fields By Ibrahima Seck, director of research, Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum Illustrations of Whitney Plantation by Toan...
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The Longs aren’t the only Winn Parish legends by Doug Ireland Winnfield is a sleepy town with a Mayberry feel and a Midas touch in political and sports history. Here, the water tower bears the...
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Ruston sportswriter and editor chronicles region’s stars, schools Though O.K. “Buddy” Davis never scored a touchdown, made a tackle, swung a bat or pulled down a rebound, his prominent place in the...
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Mr. New Orleans: Pete Fountain
* Excerpted with permission from Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans by Keith Spera. In 2000, I encountered Pete Fountain and his good-humored, long-suffering wife, Beverly,...
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Seeds of a New Science
by Michael Patrick Welch As the first day of summer approaches, farmers arrive at Louisiana State University’s Sea Grant oyster farm in Grand Isle to pick up their seed. The farmers express...
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Shrimp Ambassadors
by Erica McCreedy Larry Avery at Big Easy’s plant in Lake Charles. Photo by Tyler Walker Around 1996 in Chicago, Larry Avery didn’t know that he and Mark Abraham would become business partners of...
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From Duba to Plaquemines
by Gwendolyn Knapp The boats in the Hardrock Shipyard look like they’re practically keeling over in the heat, all ribs and burnt out bodies receding into the sand lot on a scorching June day in...
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An Inventive, Inspired Inundation
New Releases from Herlin Riley, Loretta Lynn and Dave Bartholomew by Ben Sandmel Like the mighty Mississippi, Louisiana’s musical flow crests each spring with the release of numerous new albums to...
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Another generation of farmers brings Creole tomatoes to market by Gwendolyn Knapp The Creole Tomato Festival returns June 11 for its 30th year at New Orleans’ historic French Market. The event...
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A Place of Oaks
Southwest Louisiana hunting clubs are focus of new history Book review by Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr. “In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when...
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Aaron Neville’s My True Story
The acclaimed singer records an album of doo-wop classics music review by Ben Sandmel Since the start of his recording career in 1960, Aaron Neville has stood out as one of the most distinctive and...
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Echoes of Inner Conflict
Revisiting Robert Penn Warren’s 1956 Segregation by Nathaniel Rich Curious to see what all the fuss was about — to, as Robert Penn Warren put it, “look at the faces, to hear the voices” — I attended...
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