Whilst the 300-mile road trip can be done in a week, a fortnight or more best suits the southern laidback spirit to truly ...
Curious about Louisiana's oldest cemetery? This one dates back to 1737 and is the oldest cemetery in the Louisiana Purchase.
Before maple syrup was the go-to topping for stacks of pancakes and waffles, another old-school southern condiment was the ...
Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This story is full of precise details, which lend an air of authenticity - but the ...
Louisiana’s restaurants are serving up more than just flavor this Halloween with ghostly dinners, eerie décor, and ...
The oldest cemetery in the U.S. is said to be the Myles Standish Burial Ground, which dates back to approximately 1638. This may be the oldest maintained cemetery, but there are burial mounds that ...
That story is told in a new book of the same name, the work of a pair of preeminent scholars of colonial Louisiana, Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, who trace Gentilly’s early history as a ...
“Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851” by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, Louisiana State University Press, 288 pages. I had long assumed that New ...
From abandoned mansions to eerie manors still occupied, haunted house stories continue to grip our imagination. But what ...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Elvira Helaire-Davis, who was among the oldest people in Louisiana and a Shreveport resident, died ...