Natchitoches And Louisiana S Timeless Cane River

Author : Philip Gould
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780807128329

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Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River by Philip Gould Pdf

Nestled on the banks of the Cane River, Natchitoches (pronounced NAK-i-tush) is perhaps the most beautiful inland town in Louisiana. Founded in 1714 as a French colonial settlement, it boasts brick streets, venerable architecture, and a charming ambiance that draw visitors from around the world. Nearby, a magnificent plantation country and the multicultural Creole community of Isle Brevelle amplify the area's allure. This stunning gallery of photographs by Philip Gould, along with edifying articles, documents the varying cultures of the Cane River region, one of the state's oldest and most historically French areas. The book opens with a look at Natchitoches proper and its breathtaking architectural gems, including stately churches and elegant homes. Gould also captures the life pulsing behind these impressive facades. A blues band performs its monthly gig at Roque's Grocery. A child prepares to be baptized in the Cane River. A young couple celebrates their marriage in high style. Through Gould's lens and an enlightening history by Richard Seale, Natchitoches yesterday and today comes alive. The regal residences and faded communities that lie beyond Natchitoches are remnants of a once bustling plantation economy. Accompanied by revealing commentary from Robert DeBlieux, Gould trains his talented eye on the majestic estates of Oakland, Magnolia, Oaklawn, Cherokee, Beaufort, and Melrose plantations and on the tiny town of Cloutierville, once home to writer Kate Chopin. The book also spotlights the nearby Creole settlement of Isle Brevelle, which dates back to the area's colonial period. Gould celebrates the music, food, folklore, architecture, and landscape of this vibrant multiethnic community -- which originated with a French planter and a former slave. Harlan Mark Guidry, one of the many descendants of Isle Brevelle now living throughout the United States, narrates the story of this unique cultural treasure. Natchitoches and Louisiana's Timeless Cane River offers passage through an extraordinary world where people, heritage, and history are inseparably intertwined. Natives and tourists alike will relish the journey.

Author : Cheryl H. White, PhD, and W. Ryan Smith, MA
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626198753

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Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations, A by Cheryl H. White, PhD, and W. Ryan Smith, MA Pdf

Louisiana plantations evoke images of grandeur and elegance. Beyond the facade of stately homes are stories of hope and subjugation, tragedy and suffering, shame and perseverance and war and conquest. After sixteen workers axed most of the Houmas House's ancient oak trees, referred to as "the Gentlemen," eight of the surviving trees eerily twisted overnight in grief over the losses wrought by a great Mississippi River flood. An illegal duel to reclaim lost honor left the grounds of Natchez's Cherokee Plantation bloodstained, but the victim's spirit may still wander there today. A mutilated slave girl named Chloe still haunts the halls of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville. Cheryl H. White and W. Ryan Smith reveal the dark history, folklore and lasting human cost of Louisiana plantation life.

Author : Art Shiver,Tom Whitehead
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807148808

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Clementine Hunter by Art Shiver,Tom Whitehead Pdf

Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her -- glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards -- as well as on canvas. She produced between five and ten thousand paintings, including her most ambitious work, the African House Murals. Scenes of cotton planting and harvesting, washdays, weddings, baptisms, funerals, Saturday night revelry, and zinnias depict experiences of everyday plantation life along the Cane River. More than a personal record of Hunter's life, her paintings also reflect the social, material, and cultural aspects of the area's larger African American community. Drawing on archival research, interviews, personal files, and a close relationship with the artist, Art Shiver and Tom Whitehead offer the first comprehensive biography of this self-taught painter, who attracted the attention of the world. Shiver and Whitehead trace Hunter's childhood, her encounters at Melrose with artists and writers, such as Alberta Kinsey and Lyle Saxon, and the role played by eccentric François Mignon, who encouraged and promoted her art. The authors include rare paintings and photographs to illustrate Hunter's creative process and discuss the evolution of her style. The book also highlights Hunter's impact on the modern art world and provides insight into a decades-long forgery operation that Tom Whitehead helped uncover. This recent attention reinforced the uniqueness of Hunter's art and confirmed her place in the international art community, which continues to be inspired by the life and work of Clementine Hunter.

Author : Irene S. Di Maio
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131466

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Gerstäcker's Louisiana by Irene S. Di Maio Pdf

A global traveler and adventurer, the German author Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816--1872) first arrived in Louisiana in March 1838, paddling the waterways leading from the wilds of the northwestern part of the state near Shreveport south to cosmopolitan New Orleans. He returned to the state in 1842, living for a year in the areas of Bayou Sara, St. Francisville, and Pointe Coupée -- then considered the most beautiful garden and plantation land along the Mississippi River. In 1867 he briefly visited Louisiana again, observing the devastation wrought by the Civil War and the turmoil of Reconstruction. No mere armchair tourist, Gerstäcker fully engaged himself in exploring Louisiana -- its landscapes, peoples, and Peculiar Institution. He was in the unique position of being both an insider and an outsider, and his sojourns in the state served as the basis for travel books, short stories, and novels. Gerstäcker was a remarkable raconteur and a highly popular author. During his lifetime and beyond, his writings conveyed the tenor of southern life to a German-speaking audience. Now, compiled and translated into English by Irene S. Di Maio, they offer a window on nineteenth-century Louisiana across several decades of growth and upheaval.Gerstäcker's aim as a writer was to inform and entertain, especially through humor, drama, and suspense. His works -- including his fiction -- sustain an almost ethnographic level of detail. The stories, travel sketches, and novel excerpts included here comment on slavery and its aftermath, ethnic and racial diversity, transcultural relations, and immigration and multilingualism. Gerstäcker's impressions of Louisiana remain relevant and deeply engaging

Author : Charles H. Cosgrove
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809337941

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Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago by Charles H. Cosgrove Pdf

This engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man’s struggle to succeed and the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy. By contextualizing the couple’s lives within the rich social, political, business, and religious milieu of Chicago’s early urbanization, author Charles H. Cosgrove fills a gap in the history of the city in the mid-nineteenth century. The Garretts moved from the Hudson River Valley to a nascent Chicago, where Augustus made his fortune in the land boom as an auctioneer and speculator. A mayor during the city’s formative period, Augustus was at the center of the first mayoral election scandal in Chicago. To save his honor, he resigned dramatically and found vindication in his reelection the following year. His story reveals much about the inner workings of Chicago politics and business in the antebellum era. The couple had lost three young children to disease, and Eliza arrived in Chicago with deep emotional scars. Her journey exemplifies the struggles of sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when most people attributed unhappy events to divine punishment. Following Augustus’s premature death, Eliza developed plans to devote her estate to founding a women’s college and a school for ministerial training, and in 1853 she endowed a Methodist theological school, the Garrett Biblical Institute (now the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), thereby becoming the first woman in North America to found an institution of higher learning. In addition to illuminating our understanding of Chicago from the 1830s to the 1850s, Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago explores American religious history, particularly Presbyterianism and Methodism, and its attention to gender shows how men and women experienced the same era in vastly different ways. The result is a rare, fascinating glimpse into old Chicago through the eyes of two of its important early residents.

Author : Carol Crown,Charles Russell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578069165

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Sacred and Profane by Carol Crown,Charles Russell Pdf

A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists

Author : Robin Cohen,Olivia Sheringham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509508815

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Encountering Difference by Robin Cohen,Olivia Sheringham Pdf

In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another. This fascinating book shows how people from various societies learn to live with social diversity and cultural difference, and considers how the concepts of identity formation, diaspora and creolization shed light on the processes and geographies of encounter. Robin Cohen and Olivia Sheringham reveal how early historical encounters created colonial hierarchies, but also how conflict has been creatively resisted through shared social practices in particular contact zones including islands, port cities and the ‘super-diverse’ cities formed by enhanced international migration and globalization. Drawing on research experience from across the world, including new fieldwork in Louisiana, Martinique, Mauritius and Cape Verde, their account provides a balance between rich description and insightful analysis showing, in particular, how identities emerge and merge ‘from below’. Moving seamlessly between social and political theory, history, cultural anthropology, sociology and human geography, the authors point to important new ways of understanding and living with difference, surely one of the key challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Luis J. Gordo Peláez,Paul B. Niell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003822646

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Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850 by Luis J. Gordo Peláez,Paul B. Niell Pdf

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of extraction as material networks that brought people, space, and labor together in harvesting raw materials, cultivating agriculture for export-level profits, and circulating raw materials and commodities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1500 to 1850. This book argues that histories of extraction remain incomplete without careful attention to the social, physical, and mental nexus that is architecture, just as architecture’s development in the last 500 years cannot be adequately comprehended without attention to empire, extraction, colonialism, and the rise of what Immanuel Wallerstein has called the world system. This world system was possible because of built environments that enabled resource extraction, transport of raw materials, circulation of commodities, and enactment of power relations in the struggle between capital and labor. Separated into three sections: Harvesting the Environment, Cultivating Profit, and Circulating Commodities: Networks and Infrastructures, this volume covers a wide range of geographies, from England to South America, from Africa to South Carolina. The book aims to decenter Eurocentric approaches to architectural history to expose the global circulation of ideas, things, commodities, and people that constituted the architecture of extraction in the Atlantic World. In focusing on extraction, we aim to recover histories of labor exploitation and racialized oppression of interest to the global community. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural history, geography, urban and labor history, literary studies, historic preservation, and colonial studies.

Author : Sara Dant Ewert,Hal Rothman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114230894

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Encyclopedia of American National Parks by Sara Dant Ewert,Hal Rothman Pdf

Examines the history, development, and legacy of the National Park System.

Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026440888

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G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Pdf

Author : Debra Roberson
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798749524451

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Cane River Chronicles by Debra Roberson Pdf

A photographic journey of my ancestor's of Cane River in Natchitoches, Louisiana. All short stories and poems are my own.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015066043327

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Louisiana Libraries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Vernacular architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030047558

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Vernacular Architecture Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : UOM:39015075738057

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Louisiana History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joyous Coast Foundation
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0738514993

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Natchitoches by Joyous Coast Foundation Pdf

Nestled between stately live oaks, magnolia trees, and Cane River is the beautiful old town of Natchitoches. The oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase and the third-oldest town in the United States, Natchitoches was founded in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, who was sent by the French governor to establish a colony in Louisiana. In Images of America: Natchitoches see the town as the backdrop for such movies as Steel Magnolias and view rare vintage photographs of plantation homes, the laying of bricks on Front Street, and the development of Northwestern State University.