510. Mona Lisa Saloy

510. Mona Lisa Saloy returns to the porch to talk about her service to the state as Poet Laureate of Louisiana 2021-2023. We spend a lot of time talking about her poem, "Louisiana Log." Author & Folklorist, Educator, and Scholar, Mona Lisa's work appears in many anthologies and journals.

509. Ruth Laney

509. We talk to Ruth Laney about her biography of Ernest Gaines: Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines.  "Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ernest J. Gaines.

508. Andrew Wegmann, part 2

508. Part 2 of our interview with Andrew Wegmann. Andrew has traced the introduction of concepts of whiteness, purity of blood and legitimacy of kin under the Spanish caused a transformation within the New Orleans colored community. As generations of mixed-race men and women emerged from interracial families established during the late French Period, Spanish social and legal practices permeated the New Orleans cultural landscape.

507. Andrew Wegmann, Part 1

507. Part 1 of our conversation with Andrew Wegmann. Andrew believes that the introduction of concepts of whiteness, purity of blood and legitimacy of kin under the Spanish caused a transformation within the New Orleans coloured community. As generations of mixed-race men and women emerged from interracial families established during the late French Period, Spanish social and legal practices permeated the New Orleans cultural landscape.