572. Comic Gloria McConnell

572. We welcome comedian and oroducer Gloria McConnell to the podcast. Gloria has been in business since 2019 performing standup comedy and producing Mid City Live! comedy variety show across southeast Louisiana. She has opened for national touring comedians, Sean Patton, Caitlin Peluffo, and Susan Saiger." (Black Dress Productions).

1. Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in print for the first time in 220 years. Order your copy today! 
2. This week in Louisiana history. May 4 1970 T.H. Williams wins Pulitzer Prize for his biography, Huey Long.
   
3. This week in New Orleans history. Edward William Alton Ochsner, surgeon, academic was born in Kimball, S. D., on May 4, 1896. He got his medical education as a surgical resident, Augustana Hospital, Chicago, Ill., 1921-1922; exchange surgical resident, University of Zurich, 1922-1923; exchange surgical resident, University of Frankfurt, 1923-1924. Professor of Surgery, Tulane University, 1927-1961. One of the first to identify cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer and heart disease. One of founders and director of surgery (1942-1966) of Ochsner Clinic and Ochsner Foundation Hospital; president, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, 1944-1970. Retired from surgery after more than 20,000 operations. Published six books, twenty-four sections of books, and more than five hundred articles. Taught more than 3,000 students, including Texas heart surgeon Michael DeBakey. States-Item Man of the Century in Medicine, 1977. Died, New Orleans, September 24, 1981.
4. This week in Louisiana.
   Greek Fest New Orleans.
   May 24, 2024 - May 26, 2024
   Hours
   5-11 pm Friday
   11 am -11 pm Saturday
   11 am - 8 pm Sunday
   Location:
   Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral

   1200 Robert E. Lee Blvd.
   New Orleans, LA 70122
   [Map/Directions]
   Admission Price:
   
$10 (children under 12 free)
   More Info:
   Event Website 
5. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to the drums in Congo Square on Easter Sunday, 2024.

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