Winter 2019

Contents:

Our winter 2019 issue of 64 Parishes, featuring cover art by Lafayette-based artist Denise Gallagher, explores some of Louisiana’s hidden histories. Criminologist Marianne Fisher-Giorlando uses archival photography to take us inside The Walls, Louisiana’s first state prison, now under downtown Baton Rouge. Anthropologist Denise Bates interviews Linda and Bertney Langley, custodians of the Coushatta Tribal Archive, and managing editor Chris Turner-Neal reports on the longest-running gay Mardi Gras krewe outside New Orleans, the Mystic Krewe of Apollo de Lafayette.

The issue also includes:

• Alison Fensterstock’s account of the Grateful Dead’s fabled 1970 bust in New Orleans
• Philippe Halbert’s description of the historical artifacts unearthed in a French Quarter renovation
• Lake Charles’s place in 20^th-century music, as told by Lucie Monk Carter
• Poppy Tooker serving up a review of John Coykendall’s Preserving Our Roots
• A look at Abraham Lincoln’s near-miss melee somewhere on the Lower Mississippi, courtesy of Richard Campanella

Plus stories by our partners at the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council, and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. 

The current issue of 64 Parishes is available $5.95 plus shipping. Click here to order via email or call toll free in Louisiana 1.800.909.7990 or 504.523.4352 ext. 110.