439. Shreveport Writers' Club, part 2

439. Part 2 of our interview with Shreveport Writers' Club. Since 1935, the Shreveport Writers Club has been a support group for writers. SWC includes writers from all stages of life in all genres and styles of writing.

438. Shreveport Writers' Club, part 1

438. Part 1 of our talk to several members of the Shreveport Writers' Club: Tiffany Pennywell, president. M. L. Dumas, D. L. Holmes, and Lawrence Walton. They and others contributed to the recent anthology, For a Shorter Social Distance Tomorrow:

437. Mary Niall Mitchell

437. We talk to Mary Niall Mitchell about her research into Civil War pictures of freed slave children. Union forces used pictures of white slave children who had been freed in New Orleans as propaganda and to raise money for schools for freed slave children. The Louisiana Anthology has added two articles about these children and these pictures that appeared in Harper's Magazine, "Slave Children" and "White and Colored Slaves." 

436 Huey Long: Bogeyman or Superman?

436. Stephen and Bruce discuss a couple of articles on Huey Long, and the men who wrote them. On February 13, 1935, the New Republic published two articles on Huey Long: “How Come Huey Long? 1. Bogeyman? 2. Or Superman?”

435. Steven Shepard

435. We talk to Steven Shepard about his novel. Brother Against Brother: Civil War is a historical fictional novel about the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War as it was as experienced by Captain Douglas Ivey.

434. Allendale Strong.

434. We talk to some members of Allendale Strong — Roosevelt Bryant, John Perkins, and Dorothy Wiley. Allendale is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Shreveport, and home to a rich history stretching back over a century. AllendaleStrong is a learning-doing group of citizens, working together to renew our community Relationally, Economically, and Environmentally.

433. Mary Gauthier sings and talks

433. Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier joins us to discuss her new memoir, Saved by a Song. Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did.