413. Matthew White, part 1

413. We interview photographer and musician Matthew D. White. "I am a photographer living in New Orleans. Most of my work is centered on the south Louisiana landscape, the US Gulf Coast, and South Florida. I have been photographing the Louisiana coast from Sabine Pass to the mouth of the Mississippi for more than 15 years. I also specialize in architectural, real estate, nature, travel, aerial, and industrial imagery. My photographs have appeared in Nature Conservancy Magazine; 64 Parishes (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities); Marie Claire (UK); Stern (DE); the New Orleans Times-Picayune; and The New York Times. My stock portfolio is represented by Getty Images. Licensing available for all images seen here. Inquire for commercial or editorial assignment."

1. This week in Louisiana history. April 17, 1811. Attakapas Parish abolished, became St. Martin & St. Mary.
2. This week in New Orleans history. According to local historian Buddy Stall, The [New Orleans] Pelicans made their professional [baseball] debut on April 17, 1887 as a member of the Southern Association. In their first outing, the Pels defeated Mobile, 5-2, then went on to win 75 games against 40 losses and win the pennant. The “Golden Era” of the team ran from 1901 through 1938 when the Pelicans finished in the first division all but five times. During that period, 10 pennants flew above Heinemann Park.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site
   Tour a replica of the first European settlement in what would become the Louisiana Purchase. In 1714, traveling up the Red River on his way from present-day Alabama to Mexico, French-Canadian trader Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis came upon a massive, impenetrable logjam that stopped him from advancing further. St. Denis had two huts hastily constructed, which also happened to be in a Natchitoches Indian village, and thus established the first permanent European settlement in the territory later called the Louisiana Purchase. A more substantial fort was constructed two years later to serve as a means of preventing Spanish soldiers from entering what was then French territory. The newly named Fort St. Jean Baptiste grew, becoming one of the most important trading centers in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Three Caddo Indian tribe were instrumental in ensuring France’s success at the fort, located in the center of present-day Natchitoches, because they formed communication networks between the French and Spanish settlers, plus other Native American groups.
   
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Ruston Earth Day choir.

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