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Regional Reports From Across the State

Regional Reports From Across the State

compiled and EDITED BY JEANNE FROIS

Regional Reports From Across the State

Northern LouisianaNEWS BRIEFBok to freedomFrancis Bok, born in the African village Nymlal in southern sudan, was recently invited by the English department of Grambling State University to address students. Bok didn’t expound on Shakespeare, Baldwin, Kerouac or Yeats; instead, he told the harrowing...

Regional Reports From Across the State

Regional Reports From Across the State

Northern LouisianaQUIRKY PLACESThe Music Never DiesTodd Weaver, of Louisiana Spirits Investigations, sets up a paranormal investigation at the Municipal Auditorium.(Jim Hudelson/The Times PHOTOGRAPH) Even the skepticism of paranormal investigator Brad Duplechien, Director of Louisiana Spirits ...

Around Louisiana: Regional Reports From Across the State

NORTHERN LOUISIANA

CAUSE TO CELEBRATE The wearing of the green

Celtic culture influenced the Old World and the New. When the Celts crossed the Rhine around 600 B.C., this fierce and brave race began settling across Europe and ventured as far as Turkey, where they were known as the Galatians....

Regional Reports from Across the State

Compiled and Edited by JEANNE FROIS

NORTHERN LOUISIANA

PROFILE

Howling for home

The lack of an animal shelter in Webster Parish prompted animal lovers Liz Harkins and Judy Teague to found the independent animal-rescue network A Second Chance. A string of foster homes between Shreveport and...

Greater New Orleans

Los Islenos Museum

WORTH WATCHING

San Bernardo

The San Bernardo Scenic Byway, which winds past Chalmette Battlefield in St. Bernard Parish, travels the land of “Los Islenos”(the island people), who left the Canary Islands in the 1780s and colonized Louisiana in 1788. (The Canary Islands, 60 miles southwest of...

Baton Rouge/Plantation Country

Maison Lacour Restaurant

FORK IN THE ROAD

Happy as a clam

Sitting amidst the ladder-backed chairs and white Priscilla curtains of Maison Lacour, a charming French restaurant in Baton Rouge, you won’t be surprised to see menu selections such as soupe Jacqueline, a veloute of Brie cheese, jumbo lump crab and asparagus, or...