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EVENTS 4 LEH LENDS SUPPORT TO HURRICANE STORY ARCHIVE Compelling images and stories of those who lived through the catastrophic 2005 hurricanes abound. One place they will endure is a new online hurricane archive. Gulf Coast Residents are encouraged to visit the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving Stories from Katrina, Rita, and Wilma at www.hurricanearchive .org to read the submissions of others before offering their own memories and pictures to this growing collection. Contributors may also call (504) 208-3883 to record their stories. The University of New Orleans and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University created this digital history project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Louisiana State Museum, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Houmas House Plantation and Gardens in Darrow will host this year’s LEH humanities awards ceremony. Houmas House is a restored residence on a historic sugar plantation along the River Road. across the country on about 225 public radio stations and XM Satellite Radio have listened to Nick Spitzer. Nick is the voice of American Routes.” American Routes is a weekly, two-hour radio program produced in New Orleans presenting a broad spectrum of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country, roackabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano, Latin, roots rock, pop, avant-garde and classical. Spitzer is also professor of folklore and cultural conservation at the University of New Orleans. Receiving the LEH Chair’s Award for Institutional Support will be the National Endowment for the Humanities, represented by Bruce Cole, Ph.D., NEH Chair, for the endowment’s emergency support given to the LEH and other cultural institutions in Louisiana in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “Through emergency relief grants to Louisiana organizations that suffered so terribly during and after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Chairman Cole’s quick and responsive leadership has contributed greatly to the survival of those organizations,” Sartisky said. Scheduled to receive the LEH’s Lifetime Contribution Award are Rosemary James and Joseph DeSalvo, founders of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, the Faulkner Literary Festival in New Orleans and the publication of the Double Dealer Redux Literary Journal. To purchase tickets to the March 18th ceremony, contact Stephanie Mackin at (504) 523-4352, ext. 129. Other humanities awards include: Special Humanities Award I Jerry Sanson, professor of history at Louisiana State University-Alexandria, for leading 21 Readings in Literature and Culture (RELIC) programs for the LEH in seven parishes. RELIC is a library-based reading program for adults. I Wanda Ellard of Bastrop, for her work with the LEH’s Prime Time Family Reading Time literacy program. I Diane Dufilho, director of the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport for her contributions to the cultural life in North Louisiana. Humanities Book of the Year Award I Missing New Orleans by Phillip Collier, Rick Gruber, Mary Beth Romig and Jim Rapier, and published by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. I Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza. Humanities Teacher of the Year Award I Jan Gardner, high school teacher at C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, where she has taught English, fine arts and world literature for 15 years. I Judith Allain, teacher, St. John Elementary School in Franklin. Allain has instituted an outstanding foreign languages program at her school exploring primarily the language and culture of Spanish speaking countries. TEACHER INSTITUTES READY TO RETURN FOR 2006 All humanities teachers, librarians, principals, and assistant principals are invited to participate in LEH’s 2006 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. Those taking part are eligible to receive three hours of graduate credit and/or 45 Continuing Learning Units (CLUs), plus a modest stipend. For details about the teacher institute program, contact LEH Associate Director Jennifer A. Mitchel by phone at 1 (800) 909-7990, Ext. 125, or by e-mail at mitchel@leh.org. Due to state budget cuts, the LEH is able to offer only four teacher institutes this summer, so space is limited. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL SET FOR SPRING The 20th annual Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival returns to the New Orleans French Quarter March 30 – April 2 continuing the tradition of theater, food, fun, and literary scholarship. For ticket information or to support the Festival by becoming a Friend of Tennessee, go to www.tennesseewilliams.net or contact the Festival office at (504) 581-1144. Winter 2005-06/LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS 5 http://www.hurricanearchive.org http://www.hurricanearchive.org http://www.tennesseewilliams.net

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Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Winter 2005 Contents Letters Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Louisiana State Museum After Katrina: “It’s time somebody woke us us up.” Missing New Orleans On Perilous Ground The Buildings of Louisiana (Architectural History by Karen Kingsley) Historic New Orleans Collection Louisiana Association of Museums Back to New Orleans Diary of a Displaced Person Jazz Notes (Music History by Bruce Raeburn) Cradle of the Stars The Terrible and the Brave Bookstand (Book Review by Thomas Uskali) Sound Advice (Music Review by Ben Sandmel) Forum (Commentary by James Lee Burke)

Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Winter 2005-2006

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