289. Krista Bordelon, part 1

289. Part 1 of our interview with Krista Bordelon, Baton Rouge activist and founder of Compassion Louisiana, which is an advocacy organization focused on community relations, awareness, and neighborhood development. It is entirely community organized, community led, and community funded.
     With the intent of building a strong future for Louisiana, Compassion’s focus revolves around 13 goals for sustainable development. Those goals are: no poverty; affordable and clean energy; zero hunger; work/economic growth; good health and well-being; industry, innovation, infrastructure; quality education; reduced inequality; peace, justice, strong institutions; sustainable community; partnerships for the goals; clean water and sanitation; responsible consumption and production. The ultimate goal of Compassion is to create independent, strong, sustainable communities. In a state that frequently falls behind the direction of the rest of the country, our hope is to not only move up on the list, but to become leaders in growth and development.

1. This week in Louisiana history. December 1, 1769. The first meeting of the Cabildo was held.
2. This week in New Orleans history. On December 1, 1898, Ormond plantation was purchased by State Senator Basile LaPlace, Jr., son of New Orleans pharmacist and land owner after whom the town of LaPlace is named. Mr. LaPlace was a well-known Justice of the Peace and then as a state Senator, and also successfully managed the LaPlace land area left to him by his father. Legend has it that on the night of October 11, 1899, Basile LaPlace, Jr. was shot and hung from one of the oak trees on the property by members of the Ku Klux Klan after a prior disagreement.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Victorian Christmas
   Joseph Jefferson Home & Rip Van Winkle Gardens
   5505 Rip Van Winkle Rd.,
   New Iberia, LA 70560
   337-359-8525
   Tours of the Joseph Jefferson Home and Rip Van Winkle Gardens decorated for the Holiday Season.
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to a brass band in Jackson Square, New Orleans.

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288. Lamar White. Election Update.

288. Louisiana Anthology Krewe member Lamar White joins us to discuss the runoff and review the fall elections in Louisiana. He also gives us an update on his reporting of the Mississippi runoff. For more than eleven years, Lamar White, Jr. published CenLamar, one of Louisiana’s most acclaimed and well-known progressive blogs, attracting more than two million readers and repeatedly receiving recognition from national and international news organizations. The Bayou Brief expands the original scope of CenLamar to cover the entire state. For news that's both factual and progressive, follow The Bayou Brief.

1. This week in Louisiana history. November 24, 2005. On November 24, 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded "Oriental Jazz" (or "Jass").
2. This week in New Orleans history. The Royal Branch at 2110 Royal Street (Royal at Frenchmen), funded by a grant from Andrew Carnegie, was the first New Orleans Public Library branch to open, on November 25, 1907. Two other branches, Algiers and Napoleon, also built with Carnegie funds, opened shortly afterward and continue to serve the public today.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Cottonport on the Bayou
   December 8-9, 2018
   318-876-3485
   Fireworks at 6:00 pm on Saturday Dec 8. The Christmas parade, on Sunday at 1:00, winds its way along the picturesque Bayou Rouge as it runs through downtown Cottonport. Christmas goodies abound and fireworks light up the night sky as thousands of visitors party along the banks of the bayou. Food and craft vendors on Sunday.
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce talks to Robert Desmarais about bringing back French.

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287. Earl Hampton

287. Today we interview Earl Hampton. Earl writes books on the New Orleans streetcar history. While railroading is Earl's life's work, and model railroading is his hobby, streetcars are his passion. He is a published author, in 2010 and again in 2013 by Pelican Publishing. Streetcars of New Orleans 1964-Present is his first book, a dovetail book following Louis Hennick's Streetcars of New Orleans 1835-1965. Earl's second book is Streetcar Guide to New Orleans, a tour book using New Orleans' wonderful streetcars. It is REALLY nice, well done so pick up a copy. They make great Christmas gifts!

1. This week in Louisiana history. November 17, 1906. First Louisiana State Fair held in Shreveport.
2. This week in New Orleans history. In 1805 the Rev. Philander Chase came to New Orleans and organized the Christ Church Episcopal community which began worship in the Cabildo on November 17, 1805.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Natchitoches Christmas Lights Festival
   November 18, 2017 – January 6, 2018
   Over 300,000+ Christmas lights and 100 plus riverbank set pieces are on every night at dusk through January 6, 2018. All events take place Downtown Natchitoches and the riverbank of Cane River Lake unless otherwise specified. (All times and dates are subject to change.)
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce joins the Uptown Swingers Second Line Parade in New Orleans.

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285. Candy Nugent

285. We interview Candy Nugent of the Snyder Museum in Bastrop. Located on spacious, beautifully landscaped grounds, the 1929 brick home of Charles and Esther Snyder was developed into the Snyder Museum and Creative Arts Center by the members of the Morehouse Historical Society in 1972. In addition to the original home two other buildings are located on the property, the Carriage House and the Garden Room with adjacent patio. The Carriage House includes a permanent exhibit of historic farm implements as well as a horse drawn hearse and country store. The Garden Room and patio, through the efforts of Clarklea Garden Club was built in the late 1990’s to be used as a rental venue for weddings, social events and community functions.

1. This week in Louisiana history. November 10, 1845. John Slidell of New Orleans appointed Minister to Mexico.
2. This week in New Orleans history. On November 10, 1797, Don Gilberto Guillemard, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Army and Commander of the post, informed the Cabildo (the Spanish governmental body in New Orleans) that by order of El Baron de Carondelet he had made the plan for the construction of the Cabildo Building, and was directing its construction.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Tbipac (Tunica-Biloxi Indians Political Action Committee)
   Fall BBQ Throwdown and Trade Days
   Paragon Casino RV Resort
   711 Paragon Place
   Marksville, Louisiana 71351
   November 22, 2018
   BBQ Throwdown
   A Food Festival-Cook-off organized by Tbipac. We will have crafts, flea market, commercial/retail, homegrown products, corp./information and antique/collectibles exhibitors, and 1 food booth. This event will also include: classic car show, christmas extravaganza.
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to singer Myoshen in the Musicians' Village in New Orleans.

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285. Antoine Pierce, part 2

285. Part 2 of our interview with Antoine Pierce, Baton Rouge activist. "I am a public servant who is passionate about the socioeconomic growth, development, and unity of my community. I believe in a beautiful city with...

• consistent economic development
• technologically advanced modes of transportation
• an infrastructure that accommodates growth and addresses traffic congestion
• smoke free indoor air and pollution free outdoor air
• crime free communities
• workplaces with hiring practices that do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

"These things don’t just exist in an Utopian society. I believe that Baton Rouge can be that city! This can be our reality!"

1. This week in Louisiana history. November 4, 1967. John McKeithen re-elected to his second consecutive term.
2. This week in New Orleans history. Born on November 3, 1936  in New Orleans,  Earl John Robinson was a Major League Baseball outfielder who who played from 1958 to 1964 with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Point Barre Cracklin Festival
   November 9-11, 2018
   Serving as the main annual fundraiser for the Port Barre Lions Club, the Port Barre Cracklin Festival was first held in 1985. This original gathering was a quaint one day celebration held at the boat launch near the intersection of 3rd Street, Bayou Road and Boggs Street. Offering a small selection of rides and games, a couple vendor booths and the essential Cracklin Cookoff, this introductory festival boasted a couple hundred attendees. Since that fateful start over 30 years ago the Port Barre Cracklin Festival has evolved into a major cultural and social event for both the city of Port Barre and St. Landry Parish as a whole, attended by thousands of locals and tourists each year.
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to Maude Caillat at the Musicians' Village in New Orleans, LA.

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284. Lamar White. 2018 Congressional Elections

284. Friend of the podcast Lamar White joins us to discuss the fall elections in Louisiana. He also gives us an update on his project, The Bayou Brief. For more than eleven years, Lamar White, Jr. published CenLamar, one of Louisiana’s most acclaimed and well-known progressive blogs, attracting more than two million readers and repeatedly receiving recognition from national and international news organizations. The Bayou Brief expands the original scope of CenLamar to cover the entire state. For news that's both factual and progressive, follow The Bayou Brief.

1. This week in Louisiana history. October 27, 1768. Rebellion against Ulloa began with spiking of protective New Orleans cannons.
2. This week in New Orleans history. John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.  While on leave from LSU, Corrington obtained his D.Phil. in 1965, from the University of Sussex and then moved to Loyola University New Orleans in 1966, as an Associate Professor of English, where he also served as chair of the English Department. Corrington graduated from Tulane University Law School in 1975, joined a small New Orleans personal injury law firm, Plotkin and Bradley, and spent the next three years practicing law. With his wife, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Corrington wrote five screenplays, Von Richthofen and Brown (1969), The Omega Man (1970), Boxcar Bertha (1971), The Arena (1972) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) and a television film, The Killer Bees (1974). 
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   50th Annual Louisiana Pecan Festival
   November 2-4, 2018
   318.627.5196
   Downtown
   Colfax, LA
      The Louisiana Pecan Festival takes place on the first full weekend of November each year. The festival and the Town of Colfax play host to 60,000 to 75,000 visitors each year, who come from all over Grant Parish, central Louisiana, the state and throughout the U.S. for three days of fun, great food, live musical entertainment and much more.
      Why celebrate the pecan? For one, many area farmers grow the crop, and pecans are native to the area. Pecans were a staple of the diets of the local Native Americans, and when the settlers began to arrive here from the Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, large plantations grew pecans along with their other crops. Wild pecans were grafted and new varieties cultivated, and soon the crop flourished in the rich soil of the Red River Delta. Local homesteaders also benefited because almost every yard had one or two trees that produced enough pecans to "keep some and sell the rest", providing them a small money crop in the fall.
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to African drums in the Musicians' Village in New Orleans.  

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283b. Jessee Fleenor

283b. We interview candidate Jessee Fleenor, who is running as a Democrat for the 5th Congressional District of Louisiana. Jessee is a farmer and family man who believes in a new vision for Louisiana.  One that is inclusive, vibrant, dynamic, and achievable.   Born and raised on a family farm Jessee knows the value of hard-work and respect for the land but has seen too many of his neighbors fall behind, despite all their struggle and diligence.  Its time to reinvigorate the American Dream and make sure every Louisiana citizen has a fair chance to succeed.

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