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Category : Sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Author: Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Author: Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations, A
Author: Cheryl H. White, PhD, and W. Ryan Smith, MAPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626198756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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.
Louisiana Off the Beaten Path®
Author: Gay N. MartinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762756276
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Louisiana Off the Beaten Path show you the Pelican State you never knew existed.
Louisiana's Sugar Palace
Author: Jim BlanchardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991618606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A magnificent pictorial and history of the enchanting mansion, gardens, and buildings of Louisiana's Sugar Palace, Houmas House Plantation and Gardens. Artist, author, and photographer Jim Blanchard's compilation of recent and historic photography, archival research, and treasures from the Houmas Collection unfold in his tribute to the families of the great sugar barons Daniel Clark, Wade Hampton, John Burnside, and William Porcher Miles. The historic tribute also includes early explorers and settlers of the vast Louisiana Territory, and their encounters with the Houmas Indians during expeditions prior to the Louisiana Purchase. In 2003, New Orleans businessman Kevin Kelly rescued the historic property and took to task in renovating and restoring the Houmas to its former splendor, creating a tribute to the grand, bountiful lifestyles of the Sugar Barons. The thirty-eight spectacular acres surrounding Houmas House are filled with old and new gardens, massive moss-draped live oaks, ponds and fountains, statues and sculptures, enticing pathways, bridges, and an abundance of blossoming flowers that change with the seasons. Jim Blanchard's first visit to the Houmas was on a River Road day-trip with his parents in June of 1973. Since his early years, he has been captivated by the architectural importance of rural south Louisiana's homes and buildings, a passion that shaped his life's work. From his architectural archival watercolor drawings, featured in many important publications and collections, to his focus through the lens of the camera, Jim has amassed a tribute to Louisiana, then and now. When Kevin Kelly purchased Houmas in 2003, Jim's architectural design knowledge and research were instrumental in accomplishing the restoration of the property, which continues to date. Through his ongoing research, documentation, information, and photographs from families of past owners, the history of the Houmas is continually unfolding. The bulk of the collection shown in Louisiana's Sugar Palace encompasses Jim Blanchard's photographic portraiture of the restored mansion and the gardens of Houmas.
Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940
Author: Jessie PoeschPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807120545
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The only New Deal program to continue into the 1990s, the Historic American Buildings Survey has through the years drawn attention to the historical and artistic significance of buildings that contemporary taste might otherwise have ignored. Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 makes easily available the fruit of HABS's important and enduring efforts to record Louisiana's architectural heritage. In the 1930s, the Louisiana HABS team concentrated on public edifices and grand plantation complexes threatened by destruction. Later records of HABS include still other habitations of the common man as well as industrial structures. The project has yielded not only graphic and written documentation of the buildings, many no longer standing, but also new insights into the history of the state's architecture. An invaluable part of Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 is the alphabetical listing of HABS structures in Louisiana both by familiar name and by parish. The listing by parish gives the location, the date of construction, the architect when known, and the current status of each building. It also presents drawings or photographs of many of the structures, over 300 pictures in all. There are, besides, nine chapters by leading architectural historians, who cover all aspects of Louisiana architecture: its Creole beginnings in the south of the state; the Appalachian folk style in the north; and developments on the plantation, in the seventeenth-century urban setting, and in the modern era. Those chapters form an essential frame of reference for the data in the HABS listings and call attention to many other structures that are a part of the history of building in the Pelican State. Anyone interested in the state's architecture or history will find Louisiana Buildings indispensable.
The Haunting of Louisiana
Author: Sillery, BarbaraPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455605620
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"To those who may be encountering Louisiana for the first time through these wonderful stories-prepare to be engaged and entertained to a degree to which you are certainly unaccustomed . . . Barbara's gift for storytelling holds in the written word just as it does before a television camera."-Phillip J. Jones, former secretary, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism "A personal, anecdotal narrative that paints events with evocative descriptions . . . best savored in slices-it serves up a great bedtime read."-New Orleans Times-Picayune Based on the PBS documentary of the same name that aired across the country, The Haunting of Louisiana highlights many of the stories that would not fit into the one-hour television program. Louisiana's haunted reputation is spotlighted in the twenty chapters that cover the ghostly escapades and happenings at Oak Alley Plantation, Ormond Plantation, Destrehan Manor, and America's "most haunted home," the Myrtles, in St. Francisville, to name a few. The book also includes behind-the-scenes incidents that occurred during the taping of the documentary. Who is the lady in the photograph whose mirrored reflection appears headless in a bedroom in Oak Alley Plantation? Why are little girls the only tour visitors to experience the taunting of Chloe, a slave and mistress of the owner of the Myrtles in the 1800s? Whose invisible hand had to be repeatedly pushed away from the owner's car horn at Chretien Point Plantation before the owner could get a good night's rest? The spine-tingling explanations for these events and many others are just waiting to be discovered.
Louisiana Voyages
Author: Martha Reinhard Smallwood FieldPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1578068258
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Toward the end of the 19th century, journalist Field traveled by boat and buggy around Louisiana, writing columns under the name of Catharine Cole for the New Orleans Daily Picayune. Her work spread to other papers, and she was read widely throughout the South. This collection details her journeys around the state in the 1890s. With evocative and adjective-filled prose, she describes the beauty as well as the practical aspects of Louisiana life, including shrimp drying, levee building, and the cost of land. Field conjures up vivid images of the places she visits, such as the town that "lifts its comb of roof and gray gable and soft-colored adobe chimneys from out the clumps and clouds of the chinaberry tree." The editors, both retired professors of English at Clemson University, add brief introductions to each piece. Although Field's travel adventures depict a time without modern convenience, when women were not expected to journey alone, her enjoyment of travel for its own sake resonates with readers today. Recommended for Louisiana libraries and for academic libraries with a Southern history collection.-Janet Clapp, Athens-Clarke Cty. Lib., Athens, GA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information." --Library Jour.
Louisiana Legends & Lore
Author: Alan BrownPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flicker out, hushed conversations bleed into the darker mysteries of the Pelican State. Storied outlaws like John Murrell, Eugene Bunch and Leather Britches Smith steal into the room. Voodoo priestesses Marie Laveau and Julia Brown are already there, along with the Phantom Whistler and the Axeman of New Orleans. Folklorist Alan Brown educates and entertains with tales of the unseemly, bizarre and otherworldly, like the legends of the Rougarou, the Lutin and the Honey Island Swamp Monster."--Back cover.
Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery
Author: Caitlin Meehye BeachPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery sheds light on the complex—and at times contradictory—place of such works as they moved through a world contoured both by the devastating economy of enslavement and by international abolitionist campaigns. By examining matters of making, circulation, display, and reception, Caitlin Meehye Beach argues that sculpture stood as a highly visible but deeply unstable site from which to interrogate the politics of slavery. With focus on works by Josiah Wedgwood, Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis, John Bell, and Francesco Pezzicar, Beach uncovers both the radical possibilities and the conflicting limitations of art in the pursuit of justice in racial capitalism's wake.