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The museum began with an effort to save artifacts being tossed in a local dump
Louisiana swamps offer their own changing colors for fall visitors
Weddings at the Creole Heritage Folk Life Center center on simplicity
To understand what residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana, want to restore, you need to drive a few blocks off the main highway to find the town’s oldest structures.
The Houma Half-Hitch is a type of knot that disappeared in the 1940s and was rediscovered decades later
Lafreniere Park was developed in the 1970s at the site of a former horseracing track
The 130th anniversary of the deadly storm will be marked Oct. 1
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Covington's Alison Pelegrin last month began a two-year appointment as Louisiana's poet laureate
Artist Kenny Hill started the installation in the 1980s until his eviction in 2000
Vincent Ochello honed his artistic skills while serving prison time for aggravated burglary
Live music fills the air every other Saturday at the Gator Chateau
L.W. 'Knot' Farrington was setting land speed records in the 1960s
The alligator and reptile attraction is along I-55 in Ponchatoula
The New Orleans drugstore was opened in 1823 by pharmacist Louis Dufilho Jr.
Only about 200 people still speak the endangered Coushatta language of Koasati
Zoo-bred Louisiana Pine Snakes are being released into the Kisatchie National Forest
St. Augustine is the first church in Louisiana built by a free person of color that served people of African descent
Accordion virtuoso Amede Ardoin recorded a series of songs between 1929-34
Duck carvers will sell their creations and compete for prizes in Lockport
Henry, who died in 1948, was a longtime owner of the Melrose Plantation in Central Louisiana
A child's endearing mispronunciation led to a town's unique name
White supremacists in 1873 slaughtered 100 Black citizens in Colfax, La.
Valentine Lake is a hidden gem in Central Louisiana, located about 20 miles west of Alexandria
A 58-acre strip of coastal forest on Grand Isle is ground zero for birdwatching
Naturalist John James Audubon lived at the Oakley House in St. Francisville during some of 1821
A mining accident in 1980 helped unearth many fossilized remains beneath Lake Peigneur.
Restoration of the fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is providing lessons on saving New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral
Carville, a former plantation site south of Baton Rouge, was a federal treatment center for patients with leprosy.
An avid fisherman and duck hunter from Galliano created a massive private collection of Cajun history.
The crater, more than a mile across, was discovered in a rural area of St. Helena Parish in southeastern Louisiana.
Nicholls State science professors Gary Lafleur and Quenton Fontenot organize the twice-monthly open jam at Gina's at the Legion in downtown Thibodaux
Nicholas Curole built the house from Cypress timbers in the 1800s
Bee colonies owned by Bossier City's Billy Hummer produce 50,000 pounds of honey each year
Eddie Robinson compiled a 408–165–15 record in 56 football seasons at Grambling State.
The monthly open jam session is held the third Saturday of each month in the old DeRidder Train Depot that is now a museum
Hired gunslinger Charles 'Leather Britches' Smith met his end in the area in 1912
The college music program offers students a chance to learn from Cajun music professionals
One of New Orleans' oldest surviving homes, the Pitot House in Bayou St. John was built in 1799
Bayou Schuet in lower Plaquemines Parish was a community populated by Croatian immigrants more than 100 years ago
Bruce Daigrepont's monthly fais do-do usually packs the dance floor at the storied Tipitina's music club in Uptown New Orleans
An iron memorial cross stands on the bank of Bayou Teche in St. Martinville, a replica of the Deportation Cross in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.
The birthplace of jazz legend Kid Ory in LaPlace also was the scene of a rebellion by enslaved people forced into plantation work.
The monthly gathering is open to anyone who knows how to play or wants to learn "old time country" music