As you most likely already know, Louisiana has a rich and sometimes sordid history. But do you know about the connection between French prisoners and the Bayou State?
and she frowned as she saw this newest evidence of Frank's business sense.At least five hundred dollars in debts, some of them months old, were set down against the names of people she knew well, the Merriwethers and
Whether in a long-running radio show or in bilingual streetsigns, efforts are being made to...Fausset, Richard
The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana is located just outside the French Quarter in New Orleans As we mention in takeaway message 5, gay neighborhoods can be vulnerable to erasure due to urban revitalization and gentrification (Eeckhout et al.). If gay neighborhoods are becoming less gay, ...
western Gulf of Mexico eventually struck the Texas and Louisiana border two days later before finally subsiding on Aug. 30, 1962. In August 2016, the state of Louisiana suffered from devastating flooding. More than 100,000 houses were destroyed, and over 10,000 people had to move to shelters...
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Died: August 25, 1984 Truman Capote is best known for his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was made into a movie that starred Audrey Hepburn, and the non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. His short story Shut a Final Door won the O. Hen...
Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana, United States Drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers in 1970, Terry Bradshaw went on to become a dominant NFL quarterback and led the Steelers to four Super Bowl championships. His career halted after an injury, but Bradshaw soon established himself as a prominent televisio...
Hotel Peter & Paul — New Orleans, Louisiana Cookbook writer, Uber driver, ice-pop entrepreneur, bicycle-tour guide, London cheesemonger: Nathalie Jordi's path to becoming a hotelier has been a winding one. But after moving from New York to New Orleans in 2009 and later spending a year ...
The aim,supporters say,is to recognize the way language changes.Words and expressions include in the dictionary come from over 50 countries.Some people in the state of Louisiana even also speak French. People can see the dictionary on...
What's really interesting about a lot of these combinations of foods and flavors is how regionalized or localized they can be. Here in Louisiana we mix a lot of flavors together and call it a gumbo, but you can still raise the ire of the Cajun Community by treating your gumbo wrong. He...