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It’s the Cockatoo that makes this a Louisiana Story…

23-Feb-10

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The Angola Rodeo.

21-Apr-09

http://pedrocabiya.com/?page_id=770 On Sunday I took a trip up to the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola.  The prison is located on 18,000 acres along the Mississippi River and is often called “The Farm.”  It is apparently a lineal descendant of a plantation called Angola whose owner leased convicts from the state to till his land; […]

A.J. Liebling and the Gret Stet.

08-Apr-09

In writing there are only two things, matter and treatment.  In Abbott Joseph Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana we have matter so interesting that it still holds the attention fifty years later in itself, and treatment so virtuosic one is tempted to proclaim Liebling a literary figure rather than a journalist. As far as matter […]

The Huey P. Long Bridge.

07-Mar-09