PROFILE FOREVER EMELINA At 70 years old, Emelina Edwards can squat with a 100-pound barbell on her back for 10 repetitions (after a warm-up of 90 reps). Age aside, the accomplishment of this feat for Edwards is doubly amazing: Decades…
ON THE ROAD BASTROP RETROSPECTIVE Bastrop is the seat of Paroisse de Morehouse (Morehouse Parish), which rises high to touch the state border between Louisiana and Arkansas. Although it is now mainly a retirement community due to the closure of…
PROFILE THE YELLOW? ROSE OF LOGANSPORT He isn’t to be confused with Davy Crockett’s companion, James Rose, who, according to Alamo survivor Susanna Dickinson, perished with the other American heroes in the San Antonio fort. The story of Louis Moses…
CAUSE TO CELEBRATE AS THE VINE FLIES IN MORGAN CITY The year was 1918. Movie houses were packed with audiences thrilled by the silent films flickering on-screen accompanied by the sound of swelling music played on-site in the theatre. Two…
QUIRKY PLACES WETLAND WATCH IN NORCO When driving out of town, I usually avoid the interstate because it’s too fast and not scenic enough. But there is a stretch on I-10 in St. Charles Parish that travels the LaBranche Wetlands…
PROFILE OUR HUMANE SENATORS Sen. David Vitter of Metairie and Rep. Sam Farr of California were recently named Humane Legislators of the Year by the Humane Society. According to a report in the Times-Picayune by Jonathan Tilove, Vitter was cited…
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Americana along Bayou des Glaises
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PROFILEThe Parker House ghostThirty-one years ago, when she was only 5, Brandy Parker moved with her family into a Depression-era house in the community of Tioga. The property, the previous home of her aunt and uncle, sprawled for 3 acres…
QUIRKY PLACESWindow watcherWith its history of hurricanes, American Indians, pirates, the Civil War and Reconstruction –– not to mention the chronicle of sheer human drama –– Acadiana seems filled with unseen voices forever whispering their stories into your ears. Possessed…
QUIRKY PLACESHaunted “house”Its arched windows and crenelated towers watch the Mississippi River from a green bluff, looking like a medieval castle. Louisiana’s Old State Capitol Building is a beautifully Gothic 150-year-old structure that was the hot seat of Louisiana government after the…
PROFILEGrave transgressionsI can’t imagine the mindset of a person who would rob a grave –– skulking into areas blackened by night to break not only hallowed ground but also the Seventh (if you’re Catholic or Lutheran) Commandment and stealing after poking around the…
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WORTH WATCHINGOrphan train(see related story, pg. 12)Between the years 1854 and 1929, as a means to eliminate overcrowding at the Catholic-run New York Foundling Hospital, more than 150,000 orphans were sent via train across the United States. Accompanied by nuns and…
PROFILEThrill boxWatching the Louisiana State University Tigers play baseball during spring in the openness of Alex Box Stadium reminds me of Mardi Gras. There are plenty of revelers; the purple and gold of the Tiger uniforms dot the green field…
LOUISIANA-GROWNDaisiesOne humid spring night when I was pushing 3 or 4, I aimed my finger skyward and asked, agape, “What’s that?” My mother then introduced me to the fat platinum moon that beamed over New Orleans in an indigo sky.…
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PROFILETributeIn my family it was a standing joke each hurricane season that whatever location my mother wished to evacuate to for a storm always indicated its actual landfall in Louisiana. She wanted to go to Lafayette for Carmen and Baton…
CAUSE TO CELEBRATEMighty mitesAccording to Monica Crowe, a reporter for the Ruston Daily Leader, a group of preschoolers mounted on tricycles recently burned serious rubber in the parking lot of Emmanuel Baptist Church. The Trike-A-Thon, an annual fundraiser wherein the…
QUIRKY PLACESPirate’s pathHe caused the Spanish merchant ships much grief, but Jean Lafitte never attacked an American vessel. Perhaps his breeches weren’t quite as tight as Yul Brynner’s (who played him in The Buccaneer), but he remains a dashing and…
WORTH WATCHINGUncorked artAlthough it was a warm Saturday night in June and my birthday doesn’t come until August, I was being treated to an early gift from my brother, Tim, and his wife, Pat, who are well-aware of my fondness…
FORK IN THE ROADHere comes Mr. JourdanOn a balmy evening late in spring, I attended a dinner party at Muriel’s, a restaurant charmingly placed catty-corner from Jackson Square. I don’t know if it was the fan-shaped window hanging from the…
QUIRKY PLACESHush, hush, sweet hauntedWhen Kevin Kelly purchased Houmas House Plantation, he stripped it of the bland white Americanization that a former owner had imposed upon it. In the Creole tradition of its original early-19th-century owners, Kelly lavished the beautiful…
