LAFAYETTE, La (press release) – Lafayette Travel released the latest episode of its original video series "Gumbo People," featuring Erica Fox, the curator and story keeper behind Maison Creole de Freetown, Lafayette’s African American history museum. "My passion comes from…
It’s rodeo night in Sulphur and despite temperatures just above freezing, a crowd of local cowboys and southern Louisiana families are steadily filling up the…
A little movie shot in the bayous has revived the question of our image as it is projected on the big screen. Beasts of the Southern Wild took the critics by surprise with its young actor Quvenzhané Wallis in the…
The best things to see and do in Cajun Country
Exploring Louisiana’s lighthouses
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Patterson Museum Honors Cypress Heritage
The multimillion-dollar cypress industry boomed in Atchafalaya Basin swampland.
Lafayette artist Kody Chamberlain was a late bloomer but has received national acclaim in the world of comic book art.
The best things to see and do in Cajun Country
That the entire eastern half of the Lake Pontchartrain Northshore is now spanned by a grand 31-mile bike trail is no longer news. The surprise is that it has had such an impact. Simply by threading them together, the Tammany…
along the lower mississippi
Our year of riverfront explorations ends next issue with a Yuletide visit to New Orleans, but this time we’re sightseeing the Ouachita River, starting in Monroe.Don Juan Filhiol (FEE-yol), who had fought under Louisiana’s Spanish Gov. Galvez against the British…
From the waterfronts of Shreveport and Bossier City, which we visited last issue, it’s 125 miles southeast along Red River to another pair of river cities, Alexandria and Pineville, where you will behold the fruits of the labors of two…
Attention, kids: It’s vacation time, and the riverfronts of Shreveport and Bossier City are a great place to take your folks –– lots of supervised activities for them, plus plenty of attractions you’ll enjoy seeing together. Always considered a fun…
A Louisiana Christmas.
The Wright brothers freed man from the shackles of gravity in 1903. By World War I (with the cavalry still on horseback) our airmen were flying surveillance missions and dropping hand-held explosives, while barnstormers back home promoted Red Cross and…
This downtown New Orleans hotel has a long and colorful past – and future.