512. Danielle Romero, part 2.

512. Part 2 of our interview with Danielle Romero about her documentary, Finding Lola. Danielle lives in Nashville, Tenn., but has deep roots in Natchitoches Parish. A filmmaker, she is documenting the search for her great-grandmother, Lola Perot, who passed away before Romero was born. “She left the Natchitoches area of Louisiana in the 1930s and changed her name and race to hide her identity and attempted to pass as white in New York where I was born," Romero said. Romero said when Perot left Louisiana with her Irish husband, John Donnelly, and moved to New York, she taught her children, including Romero’s grandmother, that they were French and Irish. Romero made her first visit to this area in 2021 to find family and truth. “Where did Lola’s family come from? What was she hiding, and why? It was time to find Lola, and myself. I’ve spent months interviewing elders and cousins and I am excited to share the journey of the complexity of Louisiana heritage — both in the past and today.”

1. This week in Louisiana history. March 10, 1864. Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks begins in Red River Campaign
2. This week in New Orleans history. The New Orleans Lyceum and Library Society had its origins in the 1844 ordinance passed by the Second Municipality Council, "Providing for the establishment of a Lyceum and Library by the Scholars of the Public Schools of Municipality No. Two." The library opened on March 10, 1846 with 3,400 books in its collection; by 1858 it held over 10,000 volumes.
3. This week in Louisiana.
   47^th Louisiana Crawfish Festival
   Louisiana Crawfish Fest Foundation
   P.O. Box 1996
   Chalmette, LA 70043
   info@louisianacrawfishfestival.com
   Chalmette, Louisiana
   Thu, Mar 23 - Sun, Mar 26 2023
   The Louisiana Crawfish Festival is located in Beautiful and Historical St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana which is rich with heritage, moss covered oak trees, creole tomatoes, Louisiana Bayous, shrimp boats, oyster luggers, oil refineries, and is a fisherman’s haven. St. Bernard Parish is the home of the Battle of New Orleans site over-looking the mighty Mississippi River adjoining the Crescent City, New Orleans. Even though St. Bernard flourishes predominately through diversity its roots of ancestry dominate the culture engulfed with Festivals, Arts, Crafts and merriment.
   
4. Postcards from Louisiana. The Percy Harrison Band plays on Royal St. in front of Rouses' Supermarket.

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