More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women write by Bonnye Stuart. This book was released on 2009-02-10. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Baroness Pontalba to Kate Chopin to Mahalia Jackson, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women celebrates the women who shaped the Pelican State. Short, illuminating biographies and archvial photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Louisiana Curiosities
Louisiana Curiosities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louisiana Curiosities write by Bonnye Stuart. This book was released on 2012-11-20. Louisiana Curiosities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Pelican State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Louisianan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Louisiana Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Louisiana native Bonnye Stuart takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sites in the Pelican State. Track down some serious fun, from watching lawnmower racing and petting live alligators to attending a prison rodeo and dancing at a powwow. Feast your way through festivals that celebrate the state’s cultural diversity and local crops, from fiery Cajun gumbo to sweet mayhaw jelly—and stop in at the local wineries and microbreweries to quench your thirst. Learn about the darker side of Louisiana as you tour haunted plantations, mysterious mansions, and spooky cemeteries.
More Than Petticoats
More Than Petticoats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Than Petticoats write by Bonnye E. Stuart. This book was released on 2009. More Than Petticoats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women profiles the lives of sixteen of the state's most important historical figures--women from across Louisiana, from many different walks of life. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or political barriers to make contributions to society that still resonate today" -- back cover.
Louisiana
Louisiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louisiana write by Jeri Freedman. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Louisiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn about the history, landscape, and culture of Louisiana.
Cane River Bohemia
Cane River Bohemia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cane River Bohemia write by Patricia Austin Becker. This book was released on 2018-10-10. Cane River Bohemia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, was home to many notable women, including freedwoman and entrepreneur Marie Thérèse Coincoin and artist Clementine Hunter. Among that influential group, Cammie Henry, the mistress of Melrose during the first half of the twentieth century, stands out as someone who influenced the plantation’s legacy in dramatic and memorable ways. In Cane River Bohemia, Patricia Austin Becker provides a vivid biography of this fascinating figure. Born on a sugar plantation in south Louisiana in 1871, Cammie Henry moved with her husband to Melrose in 1899 and immediately set to work restoring the property. She extended her impact on Melrose, the surrounding community, and the region when she began to host an artist colony in the 1920s and 1930s. Writers and painters visiting the bucolic setting could focus on their creative pursuits and find encouragement for their efforts. The most frequent visitors—considered by Cammie to be her circle of “congenial souls”—included writer/journalist Lyle Saxon, naturalist Caroline Dormon, author Ada Jack Carver, and painter Alberta Kinsey. Artists and artisans such as Harnett Kane, Roark Bradford, William Spratling, Doris Ulmann, and Sherwood Anderson also found their way to Melrose. In addition to hosting well-known guests, Henry began a collection of history books, nineteenth-century manuscripts, and scrapbooks of clippings and memorabilia that later brought her attention from the wider world. Researchers and writers contacted Henry frequently as the reputation of her library grew, and today the Cammie G. Henry Research Center at Northwestern State University houses this impressive collection that serves as a lasting tribute to Henry’s passion for the preservation of words as well as for the South’s material culture, including quilting, spinning, and gardening.
