101. This week we interview Bill Loehfelm about his detective novels. “Bill Loehfelm is the author of four novels, most recently, The Devil in her Way, the next Maureen Coughlin adventure and Bill's first New Orleans-set novel, from Sarah Crichton Books. Meet Maureen for the first time in The Devil She Knows (2011).”
- This week in Louisiana history. April 25, 1862. New Orleans
falls to Admiral Farragut's US Fleet. April 24, 1877.
Reconstruction ended in Louisiana.
- This week in New Orleans history. Federal troops captured
New Orleans on April 25, 1862. Having fought past
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the Union was unopposed in its
capture of the city itself, which was spared the destruction
suffered by many other Southern cities. However, the
controversial and confrontational administration of the city
by its military governor caused lasting resentment. This
capture of the largest Confederate city was a major turning
point and an incident of international importance. Because a
large part of the population had Union sympathies (or
compatible commercial interests), the Federal government took
the unusual step of designating the areas of Louisiana under
Federal control as a state within the Union, with its own
elected representatives to the U.S. Congress.
- This week in Louisiana.
- Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival Association
May 1st, 2015 - May 3rd, 2015
Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival
1300 Rees St., 520 Parkway Dr, Breaux Bridge, LA 70517
337-332-6655 | 337-332-5917
Website
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Louisiana Crawfish Gatorfest
This is the 1st Annual Louisiana Crawfish & Gator Fest
@The Ike in West Monroe, La. This is the biggest event to hit
NorthEast Louisiana in years. Perfect event to bring your
family and friends to enjoy great food, carnival rides,
shopping, and live entertainment. This will be a funfilled 4
day event for all to remember from all areas 0f the ArkLaMiss
to come enjoy the best crawfish and experience live Gators for
your entertainment. So please come support and enjoy so we can
make this the biggest event to hit this area, and continue to
bring this event back every year.
Venue: Ike Hamilton Expo Center Arena
Address: 501 Mane Street
West Monroe LA, 71292
Phone: 318-325-9160
Web: lacrawfishgatorfest.com
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100. Part 2 of our interview with Ibrahima Seck about his book, Bouki Fait Gumbo. "Through an in-depth study of one of Louisiana's most important sugar
plantations, Bouki Fait Gombo traces the impact of slavery on southern
culture. This is a thorough examination of the Whitney's evolution--
from the precise routes slaves crossed to arrive at the plantation's
doors to the records of the men, women, and children who were bound to
the Whitney over the years. Although Bouki Fait does not shy away from
depicting the daily brutalities slaves faced, at the book's heart are
the robust culinary and musical cultures that arose from their shared
sense of community and homesickness. The release of this book coincides
with the opening of the Whitney Plantation Museum, a 'site of memory
dedicated to a fuller understanding of the facts of slavery, our
national tragedy'."
- This week in Louisiana history. April 18, 1864. Battle of
Sabine Pass takes place in Cameron Parish.
- This week in New Orleans history. The Canal streetcar line
reopened April 18, 2004, almost 40 years after its
close.
- This week in Louisiana.
Festival International de Louisiane
April 22nd, 2015 - April 26th, 2015
downtown Lafayette, Louisiana
444 Jefferson St, Lafayette, LA 70501
337-232-8086 | 337-233-7536
Website
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99. Part 1 of our interview with Ibrahima Seck about his book, Bouki Fait Gumbo. "Through an in-depth study of one of Louisiana's most important sugar
plantations, Bouki Fait Gombo traces the impact of slavery on southern
culture. This is a thorough examination of the Whitney's evolution--
from the precise routes slaves crossed to arrive at the plantation's
doors to the records of the men, women, and children who were bound to
the Whitney over the years. Although Bouki Fait does not shy away from
depicting the daily brutalities slaves faced, at the book's heart are
the robust culinary and musical cultures that arose from their shared
sense of community and homesickness. The release of this book coincides
with the opening of the Whitney Plantation Museum, a 'site of memory
dedicated to a fuller understanding of the facts of slavery, our
national tragedy'."
- This week in Louisiana history. April 10, 1806. General
Leonidas Polk’s birthday.
- This week in New Orleans history. Treme, the
television drama series created by David Simon and Eric
Overmyer. which follows the interconnected lives of a group of
New Orleanians in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, premiered on
HBO on April 11, 2010.
- This week in Louisiana.
Bradshaw - Brooks Golf Tournament. Join Louisiana Tech
Athletics, Terry Bradshaw and Kix Brooks for the 11th annual
Bradshaw-Brooks Golf Tournament at Squire Creek Country Club.
April 12th, 2015 - April 13th, 2015
Squire Creek Country Club
289 Squire Creek Pkwy, Choudrant, LA 71227
318-768-7000
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98. We interview Deborah Burst, author of Louisiana's
Sacred Places. Louisiana’s Sacred Places takes
you on a personal tour of Louisiana’s most solemn and revered
locales. From New Orleans’ most telling portraits of eternal
architecture to St. Roch Chapel’s chamber of miracles filled
with relics of pain and suffering. Burst’s vivid photography and
discerning eye bring the spirits and celestial wonder to life in
every frame.
- This week in Louisiana history. April 6, 1764. First
Acadians actually arrived in Louisiana.
- This week in New Orleans history. On April 4, 1812, the
Territory of Orleans, which had been organized in 1804, was
admitted to the Union as the 18th State. It was not contiguous
to any other state, since Mississippi was not admitted until
1817, Arkansas until 1836, and Texas in 1845.
- This week in Louisiana.
April 5, 2015
Poverty Point, Epps
Tool Demonstation
Time: 1:00-4:00pm
Come and watch the rangers demonstrate the tools used by early
inhabitants to build, hunt and create other articles used in
their culture.
Address: 6859 Highway 577
Pioneer LA, 71266
Cost: $4 per person
Phone: 888-926-5492
Web: http://www.crt.state.la.us/parks/ipvertypt.aspx
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97. Part 2 of our interview with photographer and writer Richard Sexton, author of Creole World. "Creole
World is a complex, multi-layered photo essay linking New Orleans,
which is frequently referred to as "the nothernmost Caribbean city,"
with its cultural kin further south. The similarities are quite striking
and at times even uncanny. Richard Sexton traveled to and photographed
not only in Havana, but throughout Cuba, in Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa
Clara, Santiago de Cuba, Haiti, and other locales. The culmination of
these travels has resulted in Creole World, which immerses the reader in an exotic world they would never be able to see on their own."
- This week in Louisiana history. March 28, 1973. Lindy Boggs
becomes first LA. women elected to US House of Representative.
(Her husband Hale Boggs had died in a plane crash in Alaska.
- This week in New Orleans history. On March 28, 1942, Delta
Shipbuilding Co. in New Orleans launched its first Liberty
ship, the SS William C.C. Claiborne, named after the first
governor of Louisiana. Delta was one of the nine emergency
shipyards established in 1941 by the United States Maritime
Commission. Delta would launch a total of 187 Liberty ships
(out of 2,710 produced overall) during the war. The
average time it took to build one of these massive ships was
two months.
- This week in Louisiana.Grambling State University Baseball
vs La Tech
March 31st, 2015
Wilbert Ellis Field at R.W.E. Jones Park
Main Street, Ruston, LA 71245
318-274-4795
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96. Part 1 of our interview with photographer and writer Richard Sexton, author of Creole World. "Creole World is a complex, multi-layered photo essay linking New Orleans, which is frequently referred to as " the nothernmost Caribbean city," with its cultural kin further south. The similarities are quite striking and at times even uncanny. Richard Sexton traveled to and photographed not only in Havana, but throughout Cuba, in Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa Clara, Santiago de Cuba, Haiti, and other locales. The culmination of these travels has resulted in Creole World, which immerses the reader in an exotic world they would never be able to see on their own."
- This week in Louisiana history. March 21, 1804. French Emperor Napolean Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework, the "Napoleonic Code," which gives France its first coherent set of civil and criminal laws. It will later become the basis of Louisiana Law.
- This week in New Orleans history. The Great New Orleans Fire (1788) was a fire that destroyed 856 of the 1,100 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 21, 1788, spanning the south central French Quarter from Burgundy to Chartres Street, almost to the riverfront buildings. An additional 212 buildings were destroyed in a later city-wide fire, on December 8, 1794.
- This week in Louisiana. Amite City Community Market
January 3rd, 2015 - December 26th, 2015
Catha Park
Catha Park, Amite, LA 70422
985-514-8360 | 800-542-7520 | 985-542-7521
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95. Part 2 of our interview with Cari Lynn about Madam: A Novel of New Orleans. "Follow the rise of young, scrappy Mary Deubler, an alley whore who uses her looks and gumption to morph herself into Madam Josie Arlington, one of the most successful, influential, and feared women of the time. Set in 1900, Madam is based on the true story of New Orleans's 20-year
experiment with legalized prostitution that turned castaway, dirt-poor women and free women of color into celebrity madams with unprecedented power and wealth. But Storyville was about more than just sex. These
whores-turned-madams flipped Southern aristocracy on its head: singlehandedly, they created the diverse cultural and music mecca that we know today as The Big Easy." Read an excerpt at the Louisiana Anthology.
- This week in Louisiana history. March 13, 1815. Gen. Andrew
Jackson declares the end of martial law in New Orleans at the
end of War of 1812
- This week in New Orleans history. This notice was published
in the March 14, 1891 edition of the Times-Picayune.
What followed, on the same day, was the largest mass lynching
in American history, which was precipitated by the murder of
Police Chief, David C. Hennessey. Ironically, on this
date in 1889, Hennessey was appointed the city’s first
Superintendent of Police. On October 15, 1890, Hennessy was
shot a half-block from his home. The following day, as he was
dying, he allegedly informed Captain William O’Connor that he
had been shot by "Dagos", an insulting term for
Italians. 250 Italians were arrested. On October 18,
Mayor Shakspeare appointed a "Committee of Fifty" to
investigate the crime. On December 13, a grand jury indicted
19 Italians. Many of them had been identified by the
Committee of Fifty. The grand jury foreman and one other juror
were also members and financial contributors to this
group. When the jury trial didn't find enough evidence
to convict, a mod assembled. Shouting "Kill the Dagoes,"
a large crowd stormed Parish Prison. Eleven of the 19 men who
had been indicted for Hennessy's murder were shot and killed.
According to witnesses, the "cheers were deafening". The
killings were allegedly carried out by a 12-man "Execution
Squad" led by Parkerson.
- This week in Louisiana.Blue Dog Comes Home
January 15th, 2015 - April 11th, 2015
Bayou Teche Museum
131 East Main Street, New Iberia, LA 70560
337-606-5977
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