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The Louisiana Historical Association is currently accepting nominations for the following positions: VICE-PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS (three positions), and SECRETARY-TREASURER. Detailed descriptions of the terms and responsibilities of each office is contained within the bylaws of the LHA, which can be downloaded from the LHA website, www.lahistory.org. Nominators should secure a résumé or cultural vita from the nominee and verify that they are willing to accept the position before submitting nominations. Nominations for open positions will be accepted until February 1, 2012 and should be directed to the chairperson of the LHA Nominations Committee via email to mffernan@loyno.edu or via standard mail to: Professor Mark Fernandez, Loyola Univ., Dept. of History, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, Campus Box 84, New Orleans, LA 70118 The LHA invites submissions for the GLENN CONRAD PUBLICATIONS PRIZE. The Conrad Prize is awarded biannually to the best published article on any aspect of Louisiana history from any source. Editors, scholars, and authors are invited to nominate eligible articles for the prize. To be eligible, entries must be written in English, but the competition is not restricted to works published in the U.S. To nominate a publication for the 2012 Conrad Prize: Email an electronic copy of the article in pdf format to lha@louisiana.edu no later than February 1, 2012. For information on how to submit hard copies nominations, please contact the LHA Secretary-Treasurer at (337) 482-6350. The HUGH F. RANKIN PRIZE is awarded each year to the graduate student in history who submits the best unpublished article-length essay in Louisiana history or a related topic. The deadline for submission is January 15. Part-time graduate students are eligible. Please send submissions to: Janet Allured, Chair, Hugh F. Rankin Prize Committee, at jallured@mcneese.edu. Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited graduate program at either the M.A. or Ph.D. level, and the essay must be based on original research. The award will be a cash prize, to be presented at the banquet of the LHA's annual meeting.
The Louisiana Historical Association will hold its 54th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, March 1-4, 2012. The meeting will be headquartered at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter.
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Louisiana College Gabrielle Walker has been appointed Assistant Professor. Dr. Scott Culpepper published a book with Mercer University Press, Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence. His study of the Elizabethan theologian is the first to take up the writings and controversies of the figure known as the “Bishop of Brownism.” Dr. Henry Robertson has been named Dean of the Graduate school. LSU-Alexandria Jim Rogers is currently serving as president of the Alexandria Exchange Club. Christopher Stacey was promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure at the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester. He presented a paper entitled “Ezra Bennett and the Life of a Middle Class Antebellum Planter and Storeowner in Central Louisiana, 1815-1860” at the Third Annual Louisiana Studies Conference at Northwestern State University in September. Jerry Sanson was appointed to a second year as Interim Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences. He presented a paper entitled “The Louisiana Maneuvers: National Impact and Local Consequence” at the Third Annual Louisiana Studies Conference at Northwestern State University in September. He also recently reviewed A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation for Choice.
Louisiana State University Shreveport International Lincoln Center Frank J. Williams, retired Chief Justice of the Rhode Supreme Court, delivered the eighth annual Constitution Day lecture on September 12. His topic was “Chief Justice John Marshall, Abraham Lincoln, and the Constitution.” John Douglas Hall, a James Madison re-enactor from Virginia, made a presentation on September 20 in the University Center Theater. It was co-sponsored by the Shreveport Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Ronald J. Byrd, LSU Shreveport Professor of Kinesiology and Health Science, Emeritus, delivered the 17th annual Frank and Virginia Williams’ Abraham Lincoln Lecture on October 17 in the University Center. His lecture topic was “Benito Juarez as a Lawyer-Statesman in the Lincoln Tradition.” The Center and the Centre for Contemporary Theory will co-sponsor a conference on “The Role of Lawyer-Statesmen and Constitutional Democracy” in Jaipur, India IIS University on 21-22 December. The Center has announced the dates of its 29th annual Washington, D.C. mini-semester: May 13-29, 2012. The independent round-the-clock Washington program is the least expensive one in the nation offering college undergraduates the opportunity to earn six credit hours in the social sciences and the humanities. Graduate students may earn three academic credit hours. Noel Memorial Library Robert Leitz, Curator of the James Smith Noel Collection, and Laura McLemore, Archivist at Noel Memorial Library, have collaborated in expanding holdings pertaining primarily to northwest Louisiana history. Recent acquisitions include: · Fuller, C. A. “Report and Map of Colonel Fuller’s Survey of Red River.” Published in Washington, D.C., in 1855. This is a six-page pamphlet presenting a report of the Secretary of War and a map of Col. Fuller’s “Survey of Red River,” issued by the U. S. Senate, containing a map of the region of the raft. · “Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting Copies of the Reports of H. M. Shreve and R. Delafield, on the Improvement of the Navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.” This twelve-page War Department report includes lithographs showing Shreve’s machine design for removing sunken or shoreline objects from the rivers. Lt. Delafield, sent by the War Department to do an independent review, confirms in this report Shreve’s claims that the Mississippi is safe for navigation. · Freeman, William. [Autograph letter] signed by Colonel William Freeman to Colonel Henry Burbeck, Chief of the Artillery Corps, regarding troop strengths at Fort Claiborne in recently acquired Louisiana Territory. The letter was sent from Fort Claiborne in Natchitoches, Louisiana, on June 4, 1808. · [Congressional Reports.] Henry Shreve, a pioneer steamboat captain on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, designed the first steam snagboat used to remove debris from the river. The first of these reports contained herein (from 1834) was written by William Ashley. Also included are two additional congressional reports dealing with Shreve and Abert on the Red River (1836 and 1845 respectively). · “Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Correspondence of the Superintendent of the Work of Clearing away the Raft of Red [R]iver.” This letter is dated February 14, 1834. The letters are tantamount to an annual report on the progress in clearing the river. Attached to the article is a folded map entitled “Rough Sketch of that part of the Red River in which the Great Raft is situated and the Bayous, Lakes swamps &c. belonging to, or in its vicinity.” · "Voyage down Red River on Raft,” (1841) by Samuel Hazard, which includes an exploration account by Captain Shreve of the spring 1841 raft trip down Red River in Louisiana. The document describes sites along the river in great detail, alluvial deposits, river obstructions, natural history, bayous, tracts of land near the river, conjoining lakes and streams, angle of the river along the way, currents and navigation, and much more. The sixteen-page pamphlet is the most detailed description of Shreve’s raft removal project that we have seen. McNeese State University Janet Allured, professor of history, presented a paper at the 2011 meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Her paper, "The Second Wave in Louisiana," was part of a panel titled "The Second Wave Women's Movement in the South: The Cases of Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia." Philippe Girard, associate professor of Caribbean History, recently wrote “The ‘Dark Star’: New Scholarship on the Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution” (Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, forthcoming), “War Unleashed: The Use of Combat Dogs during the Haitian War of Independence” (Napoleonica, forthcoming), “Jean-Jacques Dessalines et l’arrestation de Toussaint Louverture” (Journal of Haitian Studies, forthcoming), and “Trading Races: Joseph and Marie Bunel, A Diplomat and a Merchant in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue and Philadelphia,” Journal of the Early Republic 30 (Fall 2010), 351-376. Girard’s book The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence will be published by the University of Alabama Press in November 2011. It will cover the Leclerc expedition to Haiti, the demise of Toussaint Louverture, the Louisiana Purchase, and the independence of Haiti. Based on multi-archival research in France, England, the United States, and the Caribbean, it shows that the Haitian War of Independence was less a racial war than a war over ideals and economic interests. Michael T. Smith, assistant professor of history, published The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North (University of Virginia Press). University of Louisiana at Monroe Scarecrow Press has issued a new edition of Dr. Terry L. Jones' Historical Dictionary of the Civil War. The two-volume dictionary includes an overview of the Civil War; approximately 1,700 entries on personalities, battles, weapons, terminology, and major events; and a detailed subject bibliography. Jones is also writing a monthly column for several Louisiana magazines and newspapers to commemorate the Civil War Sesquicentennial, and in September he presented a paper on Stonewall Jackson to the Pensacola, Florida, Civil War Round Table. University of New Orleans Earl K. Long Library The Louisiana and Special Collections Department of the Earl K. Long Library announces the online availability, after years in preparation, of “The Negro in Louisiana” (also known as “A Black History of Louisiana”). Written by the Dillard Unit of the Louisiana Federal Writers Project, the unpublished manuscript came to the library as part of the papers of Marcus Christian, who headed the Dillard Unit when the FWP was disbanded. No longer considered viable by commercial publishers because of its length (nearly 1,200 pages) and because of the extensive revision that would be required to incorporate recent scholarship, the manuscript nevertheless attracts scholarly attention to the interviews and other primary materials it incorporates. For a transcription of the original typescript, visit the LOUISiana Digital Library at http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15140coll42. For more information, write libspec@uno.edu or call 504-280-6544. Tulane University Louisiana Research Collection The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) at Tulane University has undertaken a major effort in 2011 to migrate the majority of its legacy finding aids for archival holdings to the web. This conversion process will make over five hundred finding aids available to the scholarly community and general public. Finding aids now available include those for the papers of writers such as Lyle Saxon and John Kennedy Toole, politicians such as Hale and Lindy Boggs and deLesseps "Chep" Morrison, and major Civil War collections, including the Charles Colcock Jones papers, Joseph Jones papers, and numerous diaries and letters of Civil War soldiers and officers. Finding aids for LaRC's holdings can be found at http://larc.tulane.edu/ LaRC's Carnival digitization project reached a major milestone in July when it completed placing its original Carnival float designs online six months ahead of schedule. LaRC preserves more than 1,300 original Comus, Momus, Proteus, and Rex float designs from the “Golden Age” of Carnival. Included are works by noted designers such as Charles Briton, Jennie Wilde, Carlotta Bonencaze, and Bror Anders Wikstrom. Created as working drawings, these stunning artworks are used by scholars in many fields, including sociology, history, marketing, politics, and literature. The LaRC's next step is to place online its more than 3,000 original costume designs. Already available are the famous “Missing Links” costume designs from the 1873 Comus parade. LaRC’s Carnival designs can be viewed at http://larc.tulane.edu/exhibits/carnival LaRC's reading room now contains a permanent installation of photographs and artifacts recording the contributions Vic and Sunny Schiro to New Orleans. LaRC also has an online exhibit about the Schiros accompanied by a study guide to the Schiros and their times. The exhibit can be seen at http://larc.tulane.edu/dig_coll/schiro. The Victor H. and Margaret G. Schiro Reading Room was made possible by the support of Jack B. McGuire. Philately is the study of stamps and postal history. Thematic or topical philately is the study of what is depicted on stamps, cancellations, and postal covers, while aerophilately is the branch of postal history specializing in airmail. All of those come together in LaRC’s latest online collection, “The Alfred S. Lippman Collection of Louisiana Postal Aviation History.” It can be viewed at http://larc.tulane.edu/dig_coll/lippman/gallery. The collection uses stamps, covers, and cancellations to record Louisiana’s aviation history. It includes envelopes autographed by famous Louisiana aviators, covers and cancellations marking Louisiana aviation events (such as the passing of the naval zeppelin U.S.S. Akron over New Orleans) and covers documenting important events in airmail history, such as the first flight of airmail from Atlanta to New Orleans. The items are fun, interesting, educational, and quite rare. In addition, the online collection includes a study guide to Louisiana’s very significant contributions to aviation. The online version of the Lippman postal aviation collection was made possible in part by the support of the Gail and Alfred S. Lippman Family Fund and the Tulane University Office of the Provost. With another election season underway, please keep all Louisiana election flyers, brochures, and mailings and forward them to LaRC. LaRC preserves an outstanding collection of historical Louisiana campaign literature, with holdings extending from 1860 to the present. To keep the collection current, it depends on supporters donating the campaign literature they receive. Political handouts can contain a surprising wealth of information, including a candidate’s photograph, resume, occupation, political party and faction, family members, race, social status, religion, club memberships, and more. Because of its high research value, LaRC has placed its campaign literature from 1860-1920 online here: http://larc.tulane.edu/dig_coll/lape LaRC was represented at the Society of American Archivists’ 75th annual meeting, held during the last week of August in Chicago. Eira Tansey presented a poster session describing how LaRC combined in-house resources with vendor-provided services to place more than five hundred archival guides online within one year. Eira’s poster is available at: http://eiratansey.com/projects/. Leon Miller presented a paper on “Updating a ‘Traditional’ Ephemera Collection.” Lee described LaRC’s several-year project to modernize its collection of Louisiana brochures and pamphlets. Encompassing more than sixty filing cabinets and 8,000+ file folders, the collection is now LaRC’s most heavily used resource. Lee’s presentation (sans text) is available at: http://prezi.com/ihxng9c9lcj0/ephemera-paper-for-2011-saa-chicago/ Southern University The Southern University Student Historical Society held its first meeting Tuesday, September 13, 2011. Meetings are held every other Tuesday, at 11 A.M, at Higgins Hall, in the 4th floor lounge. The society is sponsoring its annual Homecoming Spirit Basket raffle, filled with SU gear! Please contact Erickson Brown at 972-815-6033 or the Southern University Department of History at 225-771-3260 for information regarding the sale of tickets. The Southern University Student Historical Society is building a Historical Tour of Southern University. It is currently interviewing historians with information on Scotlandville and Southern University. If you are available for a phone or video interview, please contact Jessica Lawal at (225) 771-3260 to schedule an interview. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Sara Ritchey received a Huntington-British Academy Fellowship to spend part of the summer in London at the British Library, working on her next book project, which examines meditation as a genre of historical narrative in the later Middle Ages. From that project she has a forthcoming review in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History on the teaching of rhetoric and poetry in medieval and Renaissance schools. Another part of the summer, she used funds from a faculty mini-grant to pursue research at the archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans on French Jesuit missionary activity in colonial Louisiana; from that work, she plans to offer a historical research & writing seminar on the development of Catholic devotion in western Europe and colonial Louisiana. At the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, she presented a paper on healing narratives in the miracle collections of later medieval female saints. From that project, she has recently published a review of a monograph on English miracle narratives. In June, Michael Martin joined Mary Farmer-Kaiser and John Troutman in coordinating a week-long symposium of Lafayette Parish school teachers as part of a five-year Teaching American History grant fund by the U.S. Department of Education. Martin also served as consulting scholar for a six-week Museums on Main Street program/exhibit, entitled "Journey Stories" and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and the Acadian Memorial of St. Martinville. On August 1, he was named director of UL Lafayette's Center for Louisiana Studies. Chad H. Parker recently had his article “Controlling Man Made Malaria: Medical Modernization and the Arabian American Oil Company’s Malaria Control Program in Saudi Arabia, 1948-1956,” accepted for publication by the journal Cold War History. With support from the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center Travel Grant, Professor parker conducted further research on his book manuscript. He also traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve as a Reader for last year’s Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam. Susan Nicassio has a number of items being published, including the lead essay for the program of the new production of Puccini’s Tosca, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Fall 2011; “William Weaver’s Michelangelo,” book review, in the next issue of The Historian; “Dickens, Carlyle, and Re-Inventing the French Revolution,” in A Tale of Two Cities, Ignatius Critical Editions, Ignatius Press; “The Many Renaissances of M. Brutus and J. Caesar,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Ignatius Critical Editions, Ignatius Press, Joseph Pearce, series editor, forthcoming 2012. She is also giving a series of lectures for the UL Lafayette Newman Club—she is the new faculty advisor as well—(“The Carmelites of Compiegne,” Spring 2011; “Napoleon in Rome,” and “The Black Legend”) this fall 2011 as well as participating in a lecture series at Holy Spirit College, Atlanta, Georgia. In October, Professor Nicassio will participate in the Teacher and Student Workshops for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, sponsored by PASA with the Aquila Theater and GEAR/UP. Ted Maris-Wolf, a specialist in African-American history, joins the faculty this fall from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, having graduated in May. For his dissertation, Liberty, Bondage, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law and Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1806–1864, Ted received the college’s Thatcher Prize and the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Before coming to UL Lafayette, he taught for four years as an adjunct at Virginia Union University, William and Mary, Randolph-Macon College, and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and worked at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, where he coordinated an African seminar and the Institute’s international programs and periodically served as an editor for the William and Mary Quarterly. Most recently, he presented “To Liberia and Back: Family, Identity, and Atlantic Crossings” at the Fifth Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rowman & Littlefield is currently reviewing Carl Richard’s latest book manuscript, "When the United States Invaded Russia: Doughboys in Siberia, 1918-1920," for publication. He also has four essays and an article forthcoming: “The Romans and the American Romantics” in Timothy Saunders and Charles Martindale, eds., Romans and Romantics (Oxford); “Thomas Jefferson’s Epicureanism” in Kirk Saunders and Jeffery Fish, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Epicureanism (Oxford); “The Classical Roots of the American Founding” in Daniel Robinson, ed., The Foundations of Civic Life (Brigham Young); “Plutarch and the Early American Republic,” in Mark Beck, ed., The Plutarch Companion (Wiley-Blackwell); "The Classics and Antebellum Slavery," Classical Journal. Earlier this year Professor Richard presented different papers at the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference in Haarlem, Netherlands, the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University, and the Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education in New Orleans. Later this semester he’ll be speaking at the Parthenon in Nashville. Rob Hermann recently published "Money and Empire: the Failure of the Royal African Company" in The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815, Irish Academic Press. His "Empire Builders and Mushroom Gentlemen: The Meaning of Money in Colonial Nigeria," has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of African Historical Studies. Professor Hermann as submitted “Reasons Given, Why I Am in Debt: How Monetary Crisis Changed One Restoration Aristocrat" to the Huntington Library Quarterly and just completed work on "New Money for the Private Man: Pamphlet Economists Confront the Restoration Body Politic," for submission to the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He also was the Keynote speaker for "Ancestral Memories" at the Hilliard Art Museum. Mark Lentz spent much of his summer as co-director of the inaugural year of the Guatemala Study Abroad Program. Following the completion of this program, he spent time researching in the Archivo General de Centroámerica, preparing both his contribution for a paper for the XXVI Simposio de Arqueologia de Guatemala in Guatemala City and ongoing research for an article in progress. On July 29, he presented the collaborative paper, Espeleoarqueología, Etnohistoria y Etnografía en la Región de Nueve cerros as contributing ethnohistorian to the Salinas de las Nueve Cerros Archaeological Site. John Troutman enjoyed a productive summer of research, first at the British Library and then, through an NEH Summer Stipend, in Hawai'i. He also teamed with Mary Farmer-Kaiser and Michael Martin to conduct another Teaching American History seminar with teachers from the Lafayette Parish School System. This fall he is presenting papers at the annual meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Pasadena and the Southern Historical Association in Baltimore. He was invited to co-lead a workshop in October during the Society of American Indians Centennial Symposium at Ohio State University. He is also attending the Western Historical Association meeting in Oakland next month to receive the W. Turrentine-Jackson Prize for his book, Indian Blues. MEMBERS AFIELD Patricia Brady, independent scholar, has published A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson (PalgraveMacmillan, 2011) and “Julien Hudson: The Life of a Creole Artist,” in In Search of Julien Hudson (Historic New Orleans Collection, 2011). She was also invited to join BIO, the Biographers’ International Organization, and attended the second annual Compleat Biographers’ Conference in Washington, DC, in May. Jason Theriot, Ph.D., is currently a post-doc fellow at the Consortium for Energy Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School for Government focusing on restoration policies in the Gulf of Mexico. He is also contributing an article on the history of the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) for a special series in the Journal of American History titled "Oil in American History" forthcoming in 2012. ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Underwritten by two, five-year $1.6 million grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the LEH has formed partnerships with Caddo, Ouachita, Morehouse, East Carroll, Richland and Monroe City public school districts to create educational opportunities in American history for public school teachers in those districts. Those opportunities include graduate level summer institutes at the ULM and LSUS, as well as professional development workshops during the school year. This summer, the LEH has organized three summer institutes for elementary, middle and high school teachers at LSUS and three at ULM. After three years of development, KnowLA, the online encyclopedia of Louisiana history and culture, is now available online at www.knowla.org. Residents, tourists, teachers, and students have discovered KnowLA’s entries to be engaging, informative, and relevant. In the next few years, KnowLA will grow to more than 1,000 entries and hopes to be the first point of reference for people seeking knowledge about Louisiana’s unique history and culture. The feedback from visitors thus far has been overwhelmingly positive, and is inspiring the KnowLA team’s efforts. For more information on the project, please contact KnowLA’s Program Manager, Amy Williams, at Williams@org. The LEH announces its fall schedule for its RELIC library reading program with programs in every major region of the state. A list of confirmed locations and programs follows: · Abbeville – Vermilion Parish Library. “Folktales and Stories of the South and Louisiana.” Sept. 15-Oct. 20. · Alexandria – Westside Regional Branch, Alexandria, Rapides Parish Library. “Encounter in Louisiana.” Sept. 8-Oct. 13. · Bossier City – Bossier Parish Historical Center, Bossier Parish Library. “The Louisiana Purchase: Impact and Legacy.” Sept. 8-Oct. 13.
· Ringgold – Bienville Parish Library. “Battleground Louisiana: Civil War Events and Experiences.” Sept. 20-Oct. 25. · Vidalia – Concordia Parish Library. “In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s Hurricane Experience.” Sept. 29-Oct. 13. Louisiana State Museum The Louisiana State Museum recently added a pair of Louisiana portraits by Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1866) to its holdings of this important French painter. Curator of Visual Arts Tony Lewis tells the story of the unexpected donation: "One day last April, I took a call from a Mary Margaret Burke Swift of Denver. Mrs. Swift said she had two portraits of distant ancestors that she wished to donate to the Museum. She began to spell the artist's name, ‘V...A...U...D....’ My heart leapt. Vaudechamp! To art historians, this neoclassical painter represents the apex of antebellum Louisiana portraiture." The thrill of discovery continued as Lewis began research on the paintings. Dated to the mid-1830s, they depict a wealthy planter couple, Cornelius and Eleonore Hurst, who left a lasting imprint on the history of an uptown New Orleans neighborhood. In 1832, Cornelius Hurst bought the former Etienne de Bore plantation, a narrow stretch of land that includes present-day Audubon Park. Hurst subdivided the land for suburban estates and also invested heavily in a railroad from New Orleans to Nashville before he lost everything in the Panic of 1837. Today, street signs in the neighborhood known as "Hurstville" recall the planter's story—from busy Nashville Avenue to quiet side streets like Eleonore, Arabella and Joseph Streets which he named for his wife and children. The North Louisiana Historical Association The North Louisiana Historical Association will next meet on Saturday, November 12, 2011 at the Taylor Town Store located on Highway 71 South, 8568 Barksdale Boulevard in Bossier City, Louisiana, 71112 at 2:30 P.M. It's program is entitled “South Bossier Plantations, Families, and the Taylortown Store.” Jim Mercer will offer an overview of the history of South Bossier Parish to be followed by a leisurely stroll through the recently restored Taylortown Store. For more information, please e-mail nmeans@dcccd.edu. |
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