648. Mike and Mark Mangham. Twin Blends.

648. This week, we talk with Mike and Mark Mangum about their creative venture, Twin Blends. They research local Shreveport and Bossier history The brothers join us to discuss the project’s origins, how they combine their individual styles into a unified final piece, and what it takes to manage a shared brand. Learn more about the Mangums’ work and the inspiration behind Twin Blends.

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 221 years. Order your copy today!
   
2. This week in the Louisiana Anthology. “A Bloody Vendetta in Claiborne Parish,” in The Lake Providence Banner Democrat. "The last murder in the bloodiest Vendetta in modern times was committed the 20th day of August when Tom Kinder killed John Ferguson on the road from Homer to Trenton. For three years the fight has been on and twenty men have fallen in the conflict. There are two local papers here, but their editors have handled the incidents of the feud in a gingerly manner for fear, I suppose, of getting a charge of shot or a warning to leave town. For that reason nothing is known of it outside of Claiborne parish. The parties from whom I gleamed the facts for this article talked under their breaths and only on conditions that their names be kept secret. They were actually afraid of the few ruffians who perpetrate the vendetta, for their blood is hot and there's no telling what they would do."
   
3. This week in Louisiana history. October 18, 1730. Gov. Cadillac dies in France at the age of 74.
   
4. This week in New Orleans history. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in the French Hospital at 1821 Orleans Avenue in New Orleans on October 18, 1939 to Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. and Marguerite Frances Claverie.
   
5. This week in Louisiana.
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   Hours of Operation: Ghost + Vampire Tour: 6:00PM and 8:00PM
   Saints & Sinners Tour: Everyday at 1:30 pm
   Admission Costs: Ghost + Vampire Tour: $22 Online; $25 At Door
   Saints & Sinners Tour: $22 Online
   Payments Accepted: Credit Cards
       Book online for $16 per person and you receive a discount of $4 per ticket! (Regularly $20 per person)
   
6. Postcards from Louisiana. Little Freddie King at the French Quarter Fest. 

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