Friday, October 7, 2016

177. Tison Pugh interview, part 2

177. Part 2 of our interview with Tison Pugh. Tison is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida. His books include Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon, Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies and Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature. Pugh reveals long-overlooked or discounted aspects of gay humor within the South’s literary realm. Noting, for example, that Tennessee Williams is revered as a dramatist who probes the heart of the human condition rather than for his submerged camp humor, and that Truman Capote’s comic cinema and literature never eclipsed his serious works, Pugh establishes that mainstream and academic criticism have traditionally ignored queer humor. Likewise, Florence King and Rita Mae Brown wrote defining narratives of southern lesbian experience in, respectively, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady and Rubyfruit Jungle, yet, according to Pugh, they are almost entirely neglected in accounts of the literary South.
  1. This week in Louisiana history. October 8, 1769. O'Reilly restricted N.O. to only twelve taverns.
  2. This week in New Orleans history. October 8, 1995. The  International Motor Sports Association Grand Prix du Mardi Gras GTS-2 street race was run on the 1.43-mile circuit around the Louisiana Superdome. The winner of the 41.47 miles/29 lap race was Bill Auberlen with Kevin Buckler and Jorge Trejos finishing 2nd and 3rd.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    Festivals Acadiens et Creoles
    October 13th, 2016 - October 16th, 2016
    Girard Park
    500 Girard Park,
    Lafayette, LA 70503
    800-346-1958
    http://www.festivalsacadiens.com/
    Festivals Acadiens et Creoles started in 1972 as an effort to keep Cajun culture alive. Since then it has grown into a three day event that attracts people of many different nationalities from all over the world. Whether you're amongst the young or the young at heart, you can bet that Festivals Acadiens has something that will tickle your fancy. Come join us for good music, good food, and good times!
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Friday, September 30, 2016

176. Tison Pugh, part 1

176. Tison Pugh interview, part 1. Tison is professor of English at the University of Central Florida. His books include Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon, Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies and Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature. Pugh reveals long-overlooked or discounted aspects of gay humor within the South’s literary realm. Noting, for example, that Tennessee Williams is revered as a dramatist who probes the heart of the human condition rather than for his submerged camp humor, and that Truman Capote’s comic cinema and literature never eclipsed his serious works, Pugh establishes that mainstream and academic criticism have traditionally ignored queer humor. Likewise, Florence King and Rita Mae Brown wrote defining narratives of southern lesbian experience in, respectively, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady and Rubyfruit Jungle, yet, according to Pugh, they are almost entirely neglected in accounts of the literary South.
  1. This week in Louisiana history. October 1, 1800. Treaty of San Ildefonso provides for Spanish cession of Louisiana to France giving Napoleon Louisiana from Spain.
  2. This week in New Orleans history. On October 1, 1811, the first steamboat reached New Orleans by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Named The New Orleans it left from Pittsburgh, carried a crew of nine, four servants, a dog, and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. Roosevelt,and arrived in the city 13 days later.  Roosevelt was an inventor, a major investor in Upstate New York land, and a great-grand uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt.  His primary invention was to introduce vertical paddle wheels and he had worked with Robert Fulton in their development.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival
    September 23rd, 2016 - September 24th, 2016
    Lamar Dixon Expo Center
    9039 S St. Landry Ave, Gonzales, LA 70737
    225-675-6550
    Website
    Lamar Dixon Expo Center
    The Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival is hosted at Lamar Dixon Expo Center right in the heart of Ascension Parish. This festival combines hot air balloons, entertainment, music, food, fun and surprises. Families can enjoy a weekend jam packed with fun for all ages.
  4. Postcard from New Orleans
    Grandpa Elliott
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Friday, September 23, 2016

175. Welton Gaddy, part 2

175.  Part 2 of our interview with Welton Gaddy.  The Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy hosts the State of Belief podcast.  He is also the retired president of Interfaith Alliance, a national, non-partisan grassroots organization that celebrates religious freedom by championing individual rights, promoting policies that protect both religion and democracy, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism. Dr. Gaddy currently serves as the Pastor for Preaching and Worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, Louisiana, and he is the author of over 20 books addressing religion in American life. 
  1. This week in Louisiana history. September 27, 1902. New Orleans streetcar employees strike for 8-hr days and 25 cent per hr. minimum wage.
  2. This week in New Orleans history.  September 24, 1981. Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner dies. Born in Born, Kimball, South Dakota on May 4, 1896, Edward William Alton Ochsner came to New Orleans to practice as a professor of Surgery, Tulane University in 1927 -- a position he held until  1961.  One of the first to identify cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer and heart disease, he was one of the founders and director of surgery of Ochsner Clinic and Ochsner Foundation Hospital from 1942 to 1966.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    Tierce: Artists of Louisiana Francophone Cultures
    Sept. 24th, 2016 - November 19th, 2016
    Alexandria Museum of Art
    933 Second Street,
    Alexandria, LA 71301
    318-443-3458
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  4. Postcard from New Orleans
    Royal St. Duet.
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Friday, September 16, 2016

174. Welton Gaddy, part 1

174. Part 1 of our interview with Welton Gaddy.  The Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy hosts the State of Belief podcast.  He is also the retired president of Interfaith Alliance, a national, non-partisan grassroots organization that celebrates religious freedom by championing individual rights, promoting policies that protect both religion and democracy, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism. Dr. Gaddy currently serves as the Pastor for Preaching and Worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, Louisiana, and he is the author of over 20 books addressing religion in American life.
  1. This week in Louisiana history. September 17, 1712. Antoine Crozat receives royal charter giving exclusive trading rights to Louisiana.
  2. This week in New Orleans history. September 17, 1902.  Louis Nelson was born on September 17, 1902 at 1419-21 Touro Street.  During the 1920s, he played with Buddy Petit, Kid Rena, and Kid Harris' Dixieland Band.  During the late 1920s he joined the Sidney Desvigne Orchestra. which played for white audiences at the New Orleans Country Club and the Southern Yacht Club. During the Depression, he became first chair in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) band.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival
    September 23rd, 2016 - September 24th, 2016
    Lamar Dixon Expo Center
    9039 S St. Landry Ave, Gonzales, LA 70737
    225-675-6550
    Website
    Lamar Dixon Expo Center
    The Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival is hosted at Lamar Dixon Expo Center right in the heart of Ascension Parish. This festival combines hot air balloons, entertainment, music, food, fun and surprises. Families can enjoy a weekend jam packed with fun for all ages.
  4. Postcard from New Orleans
    Georgie and the Boys Trio
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Georgie and the Boys

Friday, September 9, 2016

173. Los Adeas tour with Michael Marbut

173. Los Adaes field trip. We interview park volunteer Mike Marbut about the history of the Spanish fort at Los Adeas. We are also joined by friends of the show Leslie Bary and Danielle. Leslie was Bruce's professor back at LSU, and we met up here to find out more about one of the oldest European settlements in the state. Los Adaes was the capital of Tejas on the northeastern frontier of New Spain from 1729 to 1770. It included a mission, San Miguel de Linares de los Adaes, and a presidio, Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes (Our Lady of the Pillar of the Adaes). The name Adaes represents the indigenous Adai people, who were to be served by the mission. The site, now preserved in the state-run Los Adaes State Historic Site, is located on Louisiana Highway 485 in present-day Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
  1. This week in Louisiana history. September 10, 1935. Gov. Huey P. Long dies after assassination.
  2. This week in New Orleans history. September 10, 1962.  Rummel High School opens.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    Pioneer Heritage Festival
    September 16th, 2016 - September 17th, 2016
    Greenwood
    9359 Greenwood Rd., Greenwood, LA 71033
    318-938-7261
    Greenwood
    This all-day festival features arts and crafts, concessions, games, entertainment, a bass tournament, a chili cook-off and a parade.
  4. Postcard from New Orleans
    Molly the Pedicab driver.  St. Peter & Chartres St.
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Michael Marbut at Los Adeas

Molly the Pedicab Driver

Friday, September 2, 2016

172. Christophe Landry, part 2

172. Part 2 of our interview with Christophe Landry.  Christophe was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, the heart of Latin Louisiana. Due to his region's multilingual background and secondary status, he has worked with state and private agencies for the promotion, protection and expansion of his region's languages (Creole, Spanish and French). After working as Cabin Crew for 7 years on international, long-haul flights, Christophe is a well-seasoned traveler with insight on culture, adapting, flying (though he cannot offer flight discounts), history, and more.
  1. This week in Louisiana history. September 3, 1859. A "mini civil war" takes place between Calcasieu vigilante and others near Rayne in what was known as the Battle of Queue de Toture.
  2. This week in New Orleans history. September 3, 1910.  Catherine Conn was born in New Orleans.  As an adult, she changed her name to Kitty Carlisle and became an actress who costarred with Bing Crosby.  In later years she was best known for being a panelist on Password, What's My Line?, and Match Game.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    Color Vibe 5K New Orleans
    Sunday, September 4
    9:00 AM CDT
    Admission: $26.99
    Come get C R A Z Y with us!!! The Color Vibe is coming to New Orleans on September 4 and wants you to experience the most #VIBErant 5k of all time! Grab your friends and family and join us as we blast you with lots of fun, epic beats and TONS OF COLOR while you run/walk our course. You'll come as a blank canvas and leave a colorful mural!! A portion of our proceeds will also go towards a local charity, Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum! Sign up now before spots fill up!
    http://www.thecolorvibe.com/neworleans.php

  4. Postcard from New Orleans. 
    Artist Joe Bostic on Royal St. and Pirates' Alley
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Friday, August 26, 2016

171. Christophe Landry, part 1

171. Part 1 of our interview with Christophe Landry.  Christophe was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, the heart of Latin Louisiana. Due to his region's multilingual background and secondary status, he has worked with state and private agencies for the promotion, protection and expansion of his region's languages (Creole, Spanish and French). After working as Cabin Crew for 7 years on international, long-haul flights, Christophe is a well-seasoned traveler with insight on culture, adapting, flying (though he cannot offer flight discounts), history, and more.
  1. This week in Louisiana history. August 28, 1956. Lake Ponchartrain Causeway opened.
  2. This week in New Orleans history. August 27, 1932.  Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, born in New Orleans on August 27, 1932 was, was first elected in 1979, as the 30th Sheriff and was re-elected six times, serving twenty eight years and six months.
  3. This week in Louisiana.
    81th Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival
    September 1st, 2016 - September 5th, 2016
    Downtown Morgan City
    Downtown Morgan City, 715 Second Street, Morgan City, LA 70380
    985-385-0703 | 800-256-2931 | 985-384-4628
    Website
    Downtown Morgan City
    Tap your toes & tempt your tastebuds at Louisiana's oldest state-chartered harvest festival. The four-day extravaganza of family entertainment includes continuous live music by local & national acts, a huge arts & crafts show and sale, a Childrens Village, the Cajun Culinary Classic, the traditional Blessing of the Fleet and water parade . . . all with no gate fee!
  4. Postcard from New Orleans.  Purple Haze on Royal and St. Peter Streets.
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Christophe Landry
Purple Haze in New Orleans