2007 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Board and Staff 2 Introduction

4 PRIME TIME Family Reading Time 5 Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine

S 6 Readings in Literature and Culture (RELIC)

T 7 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study N 8 Teaching American History E

T 9 KnowLA Online Encyclopedia

N 10 New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music O 11 Louisiana Association of Museums C 11 Tennessee Williams Festival & American Routes F

O 11 Humanist of the Year & State Poet Laureate 12 Grants E

L • Grants Analysis (p. 12) B • Public Humanities Grants (p. 12) A

T • Documentary Film & Radio Grants (p. 17)

• Outreach Grants (p. 19) ABOUT THE COVER: 22 2006 Humanities Awards Tremé (2006) by Rolland Golden, from the artist’s Hurricane Katrina series, 23 Past Board Members acrylic on canvas, 30” x 45” Collection of the artist 24 2006 Donors to the LEH

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Alice G. Pecoraro, PhD Michael Sartisky, PhD Morgan City, Chair President/Executive Director

M. Cleland Powell III William Jenkins, PhD John R. Kemp David Johnson Olivia Pass, PhD New Orleans, Vice Chair Baton Rouge Deputy Director Executive Editor, Associate Director, Louisiana Cultural Vistas Prime Time Family Reading Time ® Janet R. Wood Kevin M. Kelly Warren Meyer Lafayette, Treasurer Burnside Associate Director of Administration Toan Nguyen Dianne Brady Web/Graphic Designer, Senior Consultant, R. Lewis McHenry, JD Sarah Kracke Michael Boyle Louisiana Cultural Vistas Prime Time Family Reading Time ® New Orleans, Secretary Baton Rouge Director of Development Catherine Corder, PhD Brad Adams, JD Henry C. Lacey, PhD Shantrell Adams Walker Lasiter Baton Rouge New Orleans Editor, Assistant Director, Director, Grants Program KnowLA–Web-Encyclopedia of LA Prime Time Family Reading Time ® Judy M. Bajoie Melinda Mintz New Orleans Monroe Erik Carpentier, PhD Joyce Miller Miranda Restovic Assistant Director, Grants Program Associate Editor, Assistant Directors, Prof. John Biguenet Anil Nanda, MD KnowLA–Web-Encyclopedia of LA Prime Time Family Reading Time ® New Orleans Shreveport Rachel Norman Assistant Director, Grants Program Andrea Ferguson Brian Boyles James Carter, JD Lawrence N. Powell, PhD Digital Media Editor, Executive Manager New Orleans New Orleans Jim Segreto KnowLA–Web-Encyclopedia of LA RELIC Director V. Thomas Clark, Jr., JD Drew Ranier, JD Eve Y. Tao Faye Flanagan Bookkeeper Baton Rouge Lake Charles Howard Hunter Project Director, Senior Educational Consultant Philip C. Earhart Margaret M. Ritchey Prime Time Family Reading Time ® Jan Clifford Lake Charles Lafayette Teaching American History Administrative Assistant KnowLA Consultant Glenda Erwin Edwin Rodriguez, Jr., CFM Shreveport Metairie CONSULTANTS Rosemary Upshaw Ewing Philip A. Rozeman, MD Quitman Shreveport Linda Spradley Jim Barr, EdD Restech Laura Ladendorf Kenneth Gladish, PhD Mary Ann Sternberg National Baton Rouge Legislative Liaison Prime Time Program Evaluation Network Administrator Designer, Louisiana Cultural Vistas

Paul M. Haygood, JD Renee Vanover New Orleans Berwick ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 1 New Orleans-area teachers completed 13 American and Louisiana history Institutes.

S INTRODUCTION Institutes in both regions were funded by $1 million grants from the U.S. Department of

E Education’s Teaching American History program. I THE YEAR 2007 WAS AN IMPRESSIVE YEAR AT THE LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT T

I FOR THE HUMANITIES , successful in every established program area. We also launched ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LOUISIANA HISTORY AND CULTURE new initiatives, such as the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture,

N KnowLA or KnowLouisiana , the first Internet-based encyclopedia on the state’s people, known as KnowLA, and made significant progress in our existing award-winning programs, history, art, culture, science, business, politics and geography, is the LEH’s most ambitious A including the continued national expansion of PRIME TIME. The Capital Campaign to build and challenging initiative ever. Set to debut in 2010, KnowLA will become the first point of

M our state-of-the-art education center in Turners Hall has been extremely successful, thanks reference for anyone interested in Louisiana and will provide authoritative and readily

U in great part to many of our effective and dedicated board members and the support both accessible information for students, teachers, scholars, business and industry, tourists and

H state government, foundations, corporations, and individuals throughout the state. public officials. We envision a Louisiana in which its residents are knowledgeable about the In 2007, the LEH – through its national award history of the state, in all its complexity and richness,

E winning programs, such as PRIME TIME FAMILY and a world in which the state’s history and culture are READING TIME ®, Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, available digitally. H Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study, our Smithsonian KnowLA is a multi-year project of the Louisiana T Partnership Museums on Main Street , Readings in Endowment for the Humanities. This project is unique Literature and Culture (RELIC) library programs, the in the Endowment’s more than 35-year history. No R American Routes national radio series, the Tennessee other project can compare in size, scope, complexity, O Williams New Orleans Literary Festival and grants cost and innovation. The LEH has a history of building F awarded to communities across the state – remained the partnerships with colleges, universities and nation’s leading state humanities council. It continued organizations throughout the state and KnowLA will be T to create greater public access to our shared heritage. a collaborative effort to bring together the resources,

N Since its inception, the Louisiana Endowment for the content, technology and institutions throughout the

E Humanities has invested more than $43.5 million to state to make a comprehensive online encyclopedia a bring Louisiana’s people, history, cultures, and stories reality. KnowLA ’s digital nature adds an entirely new M to local, national, and international audiences. More dimension to the work done by LEH. Begun in 2006, than 17,000 Louisiana residents have participated in development has continued with the hiring of a new W PRIME TIME programs, almost 87,000 have attended The Patrick F. Taylor Educational Auditorium hosts public humanities programs. managing editor, editor and media editor. In addition, O RELIC programs, and approximately 3,900 educators LEH is forming an advisory board to support the

D have enrolled in LEH’s Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. Millions more have attended project’s concept, content, technical needs and fundraising.

N LEH-funded programs throughout the state or have watched LEH-funded documentaries. The bulk of that investment was possible through state and federal appropriations and grants E LEH PROGRAMS the LEH received through competitive applications. LEH programs, whether through the dramatic expansion of PRIME TIME FAMILY ®

A READING TIME , receipt of a major Teaching American History grant, our Teacher TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY GRANTS Institutes for Advanced Study, RELIC, our grants programs, or Louisiana Cultural Vistas N In June 2007, the LEH conducted three Teaching American History Institutes at magazine, reached deep into communities throughout the state. We continued to excel in A

I Louisiana State University in Shreveport for 68 Caddo Parish area public school American developing and supporting programs that are now national models. and Louisiana history teachers. In addition, nine teachers and two university professors S Louisiana rarely has been the source of a solution to the problems of illiteracy. Too often, I traveled to Washington, D.C. in October to visit the National Archives, Capitol, White House our state has been cited among its dismal examples. Yet, in 2007, PRIME TIME completed U and National Portrait Gallery. programs in 26 parishes and reached approximately 1,700 at-risk children and their parents

O Also in June, the LEH held the third and final year of the TAH program for New Orleans or guardians. In addition, the LEH conducted 68 PRIME TIME programs in California,

L public school teachers. The LEH offered four TAH institutes at Loyola University for 52 Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, Nebraska, American history teachers from the New Orleans area. We held two of those Institutes at the Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginia thanks to funds raised by organizations in LEH’s new state-of-the-art education center in Turners Hall. At the end of three years, 251 these states.

2 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT Since PRIME TIME began in 1991, it has reached 61 of the state’s 64 parishes as well as communities L in 35 other states, plus the Virgin Islands. This is truly a Louisiana success story. O

Now in its 25th year, RELIC is a blueprint for successful adult reading programs. In 2007 the LEH, CAPITAL CAMPAIGN U working with local libraries, conducted programs in 26 parishes with 4,417 Louisiana residents signing I

Last year, I wrote about the LEH’s Louisiana Humanities S up for the programs. Since its inception in 1983, RELIC programs have reached nearly 87,000

Education Center Capital Campaign, a nearly $4.5 million effort I

Louisiana residents in 62 of the state’s 64 parishes. A to bring the humanities to all Louisianians in dynamic formats that

Our highly popular Teacher Institutes for Advanced Studies were successful again last year. In N embrace the people and places, history and culture of Louisiana. December 2007, the LEH provided grant funds for four institutes that will be held in the summer of To date, the LEH has been successful in closing in on its Capital A 2008. Since 1985, the LEH has sponsored 200 summer seminars, including the Teaching American Campaign goals. As of December 31, 2007, the LEH reached its History institutes, for almost 3,900 Louisiana middle and high school teachers, who in turn teach match level designated by the $400,000 Kresge Foundation E approximately 500,000 students annually. Louisiana Cultural Vistas continued to gain greater Challenge Grant received in 2006. The LEH also is now within N attention and acclaim and win professional awards. $100,000 of the match set by its $350,000 National Endowment D for the Humanities’ Digital Initiative Grant. Given the pace of With a readership exceeding 50,000, including through O a new digital web version, Louisiana Cultural Vistas is Capital Campaign fundraising we maintained last year, we were W a lasting way for the LEH to promote and explore able to complete the construction of our new Louisiana Humanities

Louisiana's rich cultural heritage. Education Center. M Two other major LEH-supported projects also are Today, the Center is complete and through the end of 2007 we featured in this report. American Routes is a nationally hosted more than 70 meetings for various community and E acclaimed two-hour weekly radio program, featuring educational organizations. They utilized the Center’s 120-plus seat N

Louisiana roots music. In 2007, the show reached 447 auditorium, its seminar and breakout rooms, and the Center’s T stations in 236 radio markets, including XM Satellite state-of-the-art Internet-based technology located throughout the

Radio, and a weekly audience of over 500,000 Center. F listeners. The Tennessee Williams New Orleans As we anticipated when we began the Capital Campaign in O Literary Festival, completing its 21st year in 2007, 2004, several opportunities and challenges have materialized that R continued to gain national recognition as one of the offer exciting possibilities for the LEH’s future. On the fundraising

nation’s premier literary events. The Louisiana Humanities Center at Turners Hall, side, several Capital Campaign donors and prospects have T headquarters for the LEH.

expressed interest in making legacy or “planned gifts” to the LEH. H GRANTS Based on that interest, the LEH will soon recruit financial planning E This year’s Annual Report also describes grants projects funded in 2007 to community and legal volunteers to develop a comprehensive planned giving organizations, institutions, museums, scholars, writers and film producers. In 2007, the LEH awarded

program. H 77 grants for a total of almost $700,000. Since 1971, the LEH has invested more than $43.5 million Perhaps even more exciting, the Community Foundation of in humanities programs and projects that, together with funds invested by our collaborative partners, U Shreveport-Bossier made a $100,000 contribution to help create represents a total humanities investment of more than $93 million. M a $250,000 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Program

As you will see in the pages that follow, 2007 was a challenging but successful year, thanks to A Endowment in Shreveport to ensure that Shreveport-Bossier will continued support from the State of Louisiana, the National Endowment for the Humanities, have access to quality humanities-based LEH programming in N corporations and hundreds of private donors.

perpetuity. In so doing, the Foundation has helped the LEH I T develop a model for future growth based on “Leveraged

Michael Sartisky, PhD I President/Executive Director Philanthropy” where local foundations, corporations and private E

donors can partner with the LEH to bring quality humanities-based S Alice Pecoraro, PhD, programming to their communities. Because of the Community LEH Chair Foundation’s foresight, this plan is now a reality.

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 3 PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME ®, a unique intergenerational six- or eight- 2007 ACHIEVEMENTS week literacy program composed of readings, discussions and story telling, reached approximately 1,700 participants in 2007 at public libraries, schools, • Completed 50 sites in Louisiana representing 26 parishes. community centers and other public venues. The exemplary family-based model featured award-winning children’s books to stimulate discussion about themes • Reached a statewide audience of approximately 1,700 with an average and problems encountered in daily life. of 34 participants for each weekly session.

E The goals of this humanities project were to encourage parents and children to bond around the act of reading and learning together, thus

M • Continued expansion as a national model for family reading programs at I reinforcing the role of the family, and to help children and parents learn 68 sites in 13 affiliate states, including California, Georgia, Indiana,

T how to select and share books, thereby inspiring a lifelong love of books and Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, Nebraska, libraries. Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

G In 2007 PRIME TIME completed 50 sites in Louisiana, representing 26 parishes. Since the program began in 1991, 61 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes N • Reached this out-of-state audience of approximately 2,400 people with I have participated. This program is designed for families with low literacy funding from national Library Services and Technology Act grants and

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A includes a separate pre-literacy group activity for younger siblings. In recognition of the proven potential for replication, the American E Library Association continued its supportive efforts through the office of Public Programs, and the National R Endowment for the Humanities funded a grant for national expansion in 2007 and 2008. No state funds were used for out-of state programs. These programs were supported by federal grants that required Morehouse

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4 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS completed its 18th year of publication, winning six awards from the New Orleans Press Clubin 2007 while maintaining its mission to document and interpret the state’s culture, literature, arts and history. The quarterly magazine ensures that grant projects that may have reached a select regional audience gain greater visibility on magazine racks and coffee tables in the living rooms, waiting rooms, public libraries and offices of more than 50,000 readers. An on-line version of the magazine was launched with the Spring 2007 edition, allowing Internet access to each page of subsequent issues as well as select back issues. By logging on to www.leh.org, readers can now find Louisiana Cultural Vistas in its entirety in digital format. Using innovative new technology, readers L can see two-page spreads and then “flip” through the issue just like a printed version. Every listing for a website in the print version is linked on-line to that site, be it for a cultural partner or an advertiser. O U

Highlights of 2007 include: I S • A display of paintings, sculptures and drawings from The Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, an artists’ I

guild that shaped the Crescent City’s visual culture from 1922 to 1951. The article was drawn from a A

concurrent exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art in joint cooperation with The Historic New Orleans N Collection. A • The origins of Delta Airlines, the global carrier that got its start as an aerial crop-dusting service in Monroe,

Louisiana in 1929. C • A chronicle of the Baton Rouge bus boycott of 1953, a protest by African Americans that predated and U served as a model for the more lauded organized Civil Rights action in Montgomery, Alabama of 1955. L • A photo essay by photographers George Yerger and Leslie Addison, titled “Phantom Lands: A Mythic Hymn of Louisiana,” of landscapes inspired by the words of 19th-century novelist Lafcadio Hearn. T • A collection of early 20th-century photographs of Shreveport, culled from the archives of the Noel U Memorial Library at LSU-Shreveport, from the father/son commercial studio of Burch and Bill Grabill. R

• A profile of contemporary New Orleans sculptor Lin Emery. A

• Excerpts from Louisiana in Words , a book of literary vignettes that portray a day-in-the-life of the state. L • A visit to New Orleans’ Chinatown of yore, a neighborhood long gone from the city’s cultural landscape.

• Photographer Richard Sexton’s “Terra Incognita,” a collection of photographs documenting the few V

remaining primeval landscapes of the Gulf Coast. I S • An interview with acclaimed writer Michael Lewis, a native son of New Orleans. T A S 2007 PRESS CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS AWARDS

Louisiana Cultural Vistas amassed six awards — including three first-place category, winning all top three awards. First place honors went to L.J. honors in the categories of feature writing, layout and design, and photo story Goldstein for “The Beat of the Street” (Spring 2006); second place honors — at the 2007 Annual Press Club of New Orleans Awards Ceremony. Free- went to Frank Relle for “New Orleans Nightscapes” (Summer 2006); and lance writer John Magill won first place for his feature “Conspiracy of photographer Nell Campbell won third place for her documentation of Complicity” (Fall 2006), an extensively-researched chronicle of the ill-fated Hurricane Rita’s aftermath in Southwest Louisiana in “A Reckoning With Rita” development of New Orleans’ low-lying 20th-century neighborhoods that (Spring 2006). Louisiana Cultural Vistas has placed first in the Photo Story were largely devastated by Hurricane Katrina. LCV designer Toan Nguyen category 12 times in the past 15 years. Since 1993, Louisiana Cultural Vistas also won first place for his layout and design of this story. Nguyen also placed has garnered 90 awards from the Press Club of New Orleans, including seven second in the layout and design category with his layout of “Printmaking in first-place honors as Best Publication. New Orleans” (Winter 2006). Louisiana Cultural Vistas swept the Photo Story

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 5 E READINGS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (RELIC) has offered adult readers the opportunity to engage R in diverse and intellectually challenging reading and U discussion of literary and historical texts in the T humanities in local libraries across the state. RELIC is L the longest running program provided by the LEH. U RELIC topics speak to Louisianians’ experiences as

C residents of the state and as American citizens. In 2007 RELIC developed a new program to be available in 2008

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N same year LEH launched two new programs: "The Creole 2007 ACHIEVEMENTS A Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History" and “Battleground Louisiana: Civil War Events and

E Experiences.” Both drew large and diverse audiences. • Engaged 36 humanities scholars from 14 RELIC, administered in partnership with the Louisiana institutions and 4 from the public sector. R Library Association, serves as a gateway for individuals to U • Delivered 10 different topics, ranging from engage the worlds of ideas and expression about the human T Louisiana folklore to immigration literature, experience, and as a vehicle for libraries to diversify their role in

A from Native American culture to the history their communities. Small towns and rural areas, as well as

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FORTHCOMING 2008 TEACHER INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED STUDY V A African American Louisiana Writers: Picturing America: American Art History Nazi Germany and the Holocaust N A Critical Introduction in the K-12 Classroom 07-708-021/$34,753.00 07-708-017/$32,472.00 07-708-019/$33,437.00 University of Louisiana at Monroe C

Tulane University Southeastern Louisiana University Christopher Blackburn E Nghana Lewis Kim Finley-Stansbury Institute on Nazi Germany and the D K-8 teacher institute about reading, writing K-12 institute on American art history Holocaust for high school teachers. and literary studies using the works of using the NEH instructional resources, S African American Louisiana writers. “Picturing America/We the People.” Prime Time for PRIME TIME

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Looking at History: Searching for Our Gardens: $32,739 U

Photography and the American Past African American Louisiana Endowment for the D 07-708-018/$34,955.00 Women in Literature Humanities/University of New Orleans Y Loyola University of New Orleans 07-708-020/$33,347.00 Olivia Pass/Nancy Dixon Leslie Parr Southeastern Louisiana University Institute employing PRIME TIME This institute will look at American history Ruth Caillouet methodologies and books to enhance from the mid-19th century to the present Institute on African American women’s reading and critical thinking skills. through the eyes of its photographers. literature for middle and high school teachers.

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 7 Continuing two $1 million grants from the US Department of Education, in June ALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION 2007, the LEH managed two series of Teaching American History (TAH) institutes The LEH also assisted the Algiers Charter Schools Association in securing a new $1 million Teaching – four institutes for New Orleans area American history teachers and three institutes American History grant for a new round of American history institutes for New Orleans-area teachers. The for Caddo Parish-area history teachers. Below is a description of each grant LEH will be the fiscal agent and advising partner in this grant. managed by the LEH.

CADDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS In June 2007, the LEH organized the three institutes at Louisiana State University

Y in Shreveport for 68 Caddo Parish area elementary, middle and high school

R teachers. They included “The Founding of a Nation,” “Louisiana History” and “The American Presidency: Abraham Lincoln to the Present.” In May, the LEH organized O a one-day professional training workshop for 49 Caddo parish public school T elementary, middle and secondary American history and social studies teachers. S

I Conducting the workshop, “Teaching American History Workshop: Internet Resources,” were Daniel Rulli, education specialist with the National Archives and H Records Administration, and Dale van Eck, manager of education partnerships with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. N In October, the LEH conducted a trip to Washington, D.C. for nine teachers, a A Caddo Parish social studies coordinator, two LSU-Shreveport professors, the

C program master teacher consultant, and an LEH staff member. Teachers visited the I Library of Congress, the National Archives, Capitol, White House and National R Portrait Gallery. E

M NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Also in June 2007, the LEH and the TAH program sponsored four American A history institutes for 52 New Orleans-area teachers at Loyola University. This was the third and final year of the TAH program for New Orleans public school teachers. G Because of Hurricane Katrina, the third year – summer 2006 – was rescheduled for N

I the summer of 2007. The LEH organized four TAH institutes at Loyola University,

H including “United States History from 1492 to 1776”; “United States History to 1865”; “The Civil War Era: From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction”; C and “U.S. History from the Gilded Age to Modern Times”. The LEH held two of the A four institutes at its new state-of-the-art education center in Turners Hall. At the end

E of three years, 251 teachers completed the 13 summer institutes. T CALCASIEU PARISH The LEH, partnering with Calcasieu Public Schools and McNeese State University in Lake Charles, secured a $1 million Teaching American History grant to help Calcasieu public school teachers meet new state standards in American history education. The new three-year TAH program will begin at McNeese in the summer of 2008. Teachers will receive $1,000 stipends, textbooks, classroom teaching materials, three hours of academic credit and 45 Continuing Learning Units, half of the 90 units required annually, and in-service professional development workshops during the school year.

8 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT LEH AND THE ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA KnowLA is a multi-year project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. This project is unique in the Endowment’s more than thirty-five year history. No ON LOUISIANA CULTURE AND HISTORY other project can compare in size, scope, complexity, cost and innovation. The LEH has a history of building partnerships with colleges, universities and KnowLA or KnowLouisiana , the state’s first Internet-based encyclopedia on the organizations throughout the state. KnowLA will be a collaborative effort to bring K people, history, art, culture, science, business, politics and geography of together the resources, content, technology and institutions throughout the state N

Louisiana, is proving to be one of the LEH’s most ambitious and challenging to make a comprehensive online encyclopedia a reality. KnowLA’s digital nature O new initiatives. Set to debut in 2010, KnowLA will become the first point of adds an entirely new dimension to the work done by LEH. In 2006, LEH W reference for anyone interested in Louisiana and will provide authoritative and received a $50,000 appropriation from the State of Louisiana to develop a

accessible information for students, teachers, scholars, business and industry, concept for the encyclopedia. Development has continued with the hiring of a L

tourists and public officials . The creators of KnowLA envision a Louisiana in new managing editor, editor and media editor. In addition, LEH is forming an A which its residents are knowledgeable about the history of the state, in all its advisory board to support the project’s concept, content, technical needs and

complexity and richness, and a world in which the state’s history and culture are fundraising. O available digitally. N L I N E E N C Y C L O P E D I A

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 9 New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music

THE EXHIBITION NEW HARMONIES: CELEBRATING AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC , made possible by a partnership between the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street Program, began its planning and organizational phase in 2007. New Harmonies is an interactive exhibit that examines the ongoing cultural process that has made America the birthplace of more music than any place on earth. The exhibition provides a fascinating, inspiring and toe-tapping listen to the American story of multi-cultural exchange. S Besides covering all exhibition costs and providing in total $17,000 in T grants for ancillary exhibits and public programs to the six host sites, N the LEH has provided continuous technical assistance to the sponsoring

A organizations on exhibition and program development, fundraising,

R publicity and promotion, collaboration, and budget planning, all of which will benefit these organizations long after the Smithsonian exhibit G has left town. L A

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CELEBRATING AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC P I L I H E P Y B O P 07-708-002/$5,000.00 T O H 07-708-003/$5,000.00 P S OG 07-080-102/$1,000.00 OG 07-080-103/$1,355.00 H OG 07-080-104/$1,107.00

E OG 07-080-105/$1,141.00

L OG 07-080-106/$865.00 OG 07-080-107/$1,203.00 Host Sites Jeanerette Bicentennial Park and Museum Le Musee de la Ville De Kaplan Gail Garcia Betty Girouard

Louisiana State Oil & Gas Museum , Oil City Town of Abita Springs Coe Haygood Bryan Gowland

Delta Music Museum , Ferriday Lincoln Parish Library , Ruston Judith Bingham Vivian McCain

10 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT Louisiana Association of Museums American Routes THE LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS is a not-for-profit statewide membership AMERICAN ROUTES is a one-hour radio program featuring organization that serves the more than 350 museums, historic sites and historical organizations Louisiana and nationally known musicians. These artists of Louisiana. These unique institutions have a positive influence on the economy and the quality represent a wide range of popular music: jazz, blues, Cajun, of life for all Louisiana citizens, as they protect, preserve, and present Louisiana’s art, history Latin, soul, Zydeco, western swing, pop, and gospel. The and cultural treasures. They tell the stories behind those treasures to the people of Louisiana program format includes conversational interviews with the and to its visitors from around the world. They are a tremendous resource for our schools, hottest artists on the contemporary and traditional music providing countless hours of teacher workshops and unforgettable out-of-the-classroom learning scene as well as samples of their latest creations. R experiences for students. LAM is the only organization with the structure in place to provide the E Z T I P S services — annual conference, professional development workshops, Spring Summit, K Reaching 447 stations in 236 radio markets including XM C I N advocacy, and regional meetings — needed by many of Louisiana’s museums through Satellite Radio, these stations ranged from those dominated L professional training and technical assistance in all fields of museum work, and helping to spread by classical formats to those featuring news. The estimated weekly national audience E

the word about all that Louisiana museums have to offer. is over 500,000 listeners. H

Louisiana Association of Museums American Routes S 06-080-128/$22,500.00 06-080-129/$100,000.00 P Louisiana Association of Museums Nick Spitzer Debra Henderson E C I A

Tennessee Williams Festival Humanist of the Year L J. RICHARD GRUBER, PH.D., Executive Director of the

2007 marks the 21st anniversary of the TENNESSEE G Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. WILLIAMS/NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL , which R presents theatrical, literary and musical programs showcasing regional writers, actors and musicians for the community. This A annual literary festival brings top writers to New Orleans and N

provides quality programming for the general public. The festival 2007 Humanist of the Year T OG 06-080-069 / $1,000.00

contributes to the city’s cultural life with five days of master classes, S poetry readings, literary panels, cultural walking tours, theatrical and musical performances, and a book fair. It is the largest and oldest established literary festival in the city and reaches the largest audience of any local literary event. Many local residents are reached by way of area cable access channels where videotapes of all panels are broadcast. Besides reaching thousands of State Poet Laureate readers, the festival is one of the nation’s Top 10 Literary Events. The festival also sends writers DARRELL BOURQUE , PH.D., a resident of St. Landry Parish, to the city’s public high schools and contributes books to their libraries. La., has been named Louisiana Poet Laureate for 2007-2009 by Governor Kathleen Blanco. Dr. Bourque is professor emeritus of 2007 festival participants included Douglas Brinkley, Richard Ford, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Since his Lewis, Sharyn McCrumb, Mike Tidwell, and John Waters. retirement, he has taught independent workshops, most recently for Northern Michigan University and for Louisiana affiliates of the National Writing Project. Dr. Bourque succeeds Brenda Marie The 21st Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival: “Coming of Age” Osbey, who served as the State Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2007. 06-080-130/$30,000.00 The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Ms Osbey was Louisiana's first peer-selected poet laureate. Paul Willis ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 11 THE LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES awarded 77 grants 2007 GRANT PROFILES totaling $699,979 in 2007. These grants ranged from an Outreach Grant of $400 to Areas of Concentration Grants Total Awards % of Funds % of Grants a Documentary Film and Radio grant of $36,666. The average grant was $9,091. General Humanities 28 $370,226 53% 36% These grants included funding for 15 discussion projects averaging $3,811; four Louisiana Humanities 49 $329,753 47% 64% documentary film and radio projects averaging $29,509; 13 museum and exhibition projects averaging $9,541; 17 festival projects averaging $6,433; three informances Location of Awards (by Congressional District) Y averaging $6,130; five publication projects averaging $6,861; seven Teacher District 1/Jindal 9 $99,055 14% 12%

R District 2/Jefferson 24 $312,031 44% 31% Institutes and workshops averaging $28,892; one electronic media project for District 3/Melancon 7 $13,925 2% 9% A $7,346; 10 planning grants averaging $2,467; one scholar-in-residence for $1,942; District 4/McCrery 8 $47,934 7% 10% and one Our Town community history project for $2,500. Since 1971 the LEH has

M District 5/Alexander 7 $54,189 8% 9% awarded over $23.5 million in grants. District 6/Baker 10 $116,045 17% 13%

M District 7/Boustany 12 $56,800 8% 16%

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R Baton $2,001-$2,500 20 $49,387 7% 26% Rouge Livingston Jefferson Acadia $2,501-$7,500 11 $57,143 8% 14% G L a t Davis f St. Calcasieu a Iberville n is y Martin Ascension h t $7,501-$10,000 2 $19,978 3% 3% e o p t J a te . t B S e s A n St. h a $10,001-$15,000 6 $76,303 11% 8% s T rle Iberia s O u James Cameron m St. Vermilion St. p $15,001-$20,000 3 $53,954 8% 4% t Charles St. i B Martin o erna n rd J e $20,001-$25,000 4 $90,756 13% 5%

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A s St. h an s T Number of Programs 13 46730 le Y Iberia s Or u James Cameron m St. Vermilion St. p t Charles St Outright Funds $55,204.00 $16,690.00 $25,676.00 $30,811.00 $128,381.00

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R 34 % 2007 Library Reading Discussion Project for Families Y PROGRAM O J Location North Central Southeast Southwest National* Total DEVELOPMENT RELIC E Library Sites 12 9 23 6 68 118 17 % C LOUISIANA T Outright Funds 88,249.56 66,187.17 169,144.99 44,124.78 500,080.84 867,787.34

A S M CULTURAL ER % of Total Funds (LA) 24% 18% 46% 12% 100% IC VISTAS TEACHER AN Library Cost Share 28,500.00 21,375.00 54,625.00 14,250.00 161,500.00 280,250.00 INSTITUTES RO UT Total PT Funding 116,749.56 87,562.17 223,769.99 58,374.78 661,580.84 1,148,037.34 OTHER ES GRANTS * National sites were funded by federal programs requiring sites in multiple states. G R A N T S 36 % ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 13 PUBLIC HUMANITIES GRANTS The LEH supports cultural efforts throughout the state by awarding grants to local cultural organizations and institutions. These awards support large- and small-scale humanities public programs from university-sponsored events to those sponsored by museums, libraries, cultural centers and historical societies. Public Humanities grants bridge the gap between academia and the community, giving Louisiana residents access to top university faculty and resources. Specific formats for these projects include, but are not limited to, public forums such as conferences and workshops, interpretive exhibits, and film and music lecture series.

Public Humanities grants awarded in 2007 included

S Documentary Film and Radio projects. T

N Object and Idea: A Series of Public Lectures

A 07-080-147/$11,206.00 University of Louisiana at Lafayette R Mark Tullos G Annual series of exhibits and lectures. H Tradition in Transition: E Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs L 07-080-148/$20,000.00 Louisiana Art and Science Museum Elizabeth Chubbuck Weinstein Exhibition, catalogue and lecture series on Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs. Artist Jean Seidenberg, painter of Lindy Boggs (1987-88), will be featured in an LEH-funded catalog. The Line That Roars: Editorial Cartoons in the Age of Anxiety 07-080-149/$15,650.00 Louisiana State University and A&M College The Meadows Museum Teaching & Engaging Southern Master Series: Jean Seidenberg Laura Lindsay Community 07-080-152/$21,650.00 Exhibition, catalogue and lecture series demonstrating the 07-080-151/$23,767.00 Ogden Museum of Southern Art power and effectiveness of editorial cartoons in reflecting Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College David Houston and illuminating major issues in American life. Diane Dufilho Exhibition and catalogue on the art and life of New Orleans Annual series of exhibits and lectures. artist Jean Seidenberg.

14 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT House of Dance and Feathers Museum McNeese Banners Lecture Series Catalogue & Cultural Showcase 07-708-005/$10,000.00 07-080-153/$18,304.00 McNeese Foundation The Neighborhood Story Project Janet Allured Rachel Breunlin 16th annual series of music, art and humanities events Catalogue documenting the House of Dance and featuring John Wood, Steven Gimbel, James Carter, Nick Feathers’collection and oral histories on the Lower Ninth Spitzer and Charles Freeman. Ward of New Orleans. Cannes Brulee Native American Museum 2007 National Creole Heritage Celebration Programs and Powwow 07-080-155/$10,522.00 07-708-007/$5,500.00 Northwestern State University City of Kenner Janet Colson Rose Behan 2007 National Creole Heritage Conference featuring Dana Weekend Native American educational programs and a

Kress, A. P. Tureaud, Dayna Bowker Lee and Hiram spring powwow. L

Gregory. E

Look at Me: H Lafayette in History Judy Cooper Photographs 1988-2007 07-080-156/$6,630.00 07-708-009/$9,978.00 G

University of Louisiana at Lafayette New Orleans Museum of Art R

Jordan Kellman Lisa Rotondo-McCord A

A series of colloquia, lectures and open-forum discussions Exhibition, catalogue and discussion panels on the works of N on the Marquis de Lafayette and his role in American and The Marquis de Lafayette, namesake of Lafayette, La., Judy Cooper. was the subject of a yearlong series of programs. T Louisiana history. New Orleans Jazz Legends S 2007 Louisiana Book Festival Online Video Library 07-080-157/$20,389.00 Louisiana Indian Heritage Association’s Fall 07-708-012/$7,346.00 Louisiana Library Foundation & Spring Powwows Dillard University Diane Brown 07-080-160/$12,161.00 Edward Anderson Fourth annual Louisiana Book Festival, featuring Walter Louisiana Indian Heritage Association Inc Website on the history of New Orleans music as told by those Isaacson, Sara Bongiorni, A.J. Meek, and John Maxwell Andrea Randazzo who created it, play it and are bringing it into the 21st Hamilton, among others. Cultural revival and festival celebrating Native American century. traditions held bi-annually in Gonzales. Louisiana Crossroads Season 8 Shreveport Sounds in Black and White: 07-080-158/$13,890.00 Ties to the Isles: Remembering the History of Popular and Acadiana Arts Council British and Irish Traditions in Louisiana Roots Music in North Louisiana Todd Mouton 07-708-004/$5,941.00 07-708-013/$5,726.00 8th annual informance series in New Iberia, Lafayette, Lake Northwestern State University Louisiana Tech University Charles and Alexandria. Sheila Richmond David Anderson 28th annual folklife festival on Louisiana history and culture. Conference on the history of music in Shreveport and North Louisiana—country, blues, R&B, rockabilly and rock.

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 15 The Day the War Stopped: Peace in the Midst of the Civil War 07-708-015/$13,524.00 West Feliciana Parish Community Development Foundation Shirley Dittloff Re-enactment, lecture, website and publication on local Civil War history surrounding the death of Union Lt. Commander John Hart.

DOCUMENTARY FILM AND RADIO GRANTS Documentary Film and Radio projects are the most cost-effective of the LEH grants. These projects have the potential to reach all Louisiana residents simultaneously through broadcast on public radio or television. Actual audience numbers show that a documentary film can be provided to a Louisiana audience for as little as 10-cents per

S viewer. In addition, our efforts have made the LEH the largest state

T supporter of documentary film and radio projects for more than 20

N years. Films funded by the LEH are made available after broadcast through the Louisiana State Library Audiovisual Resource Center. A All films published in the LEH Media Catalog available to any R Louisiana resident with a library card. G

Rebel H 07-080-164/$36,666.00 E Filmmaker’s Collaborative L Maria Agui Carter This documentary of Cuban-born New Orleanian Loreta Janeta Velzquez, a female soldier of the American Civil War, provides a window into the vibrant Spanish legacy of New Orleans and the South, and a window into gender and ethnicity in the 19th century.

Reverse Angle: Retelling Robert Flaherty’s Louisiana Story 07-080-165/$24,950.00 Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting Tika Laudun Documentary exploring the legacy of Robert Flaherty’s “Louisiana An LEH public humanities grant funded an exhibition, catalogue and lecture series on “Russian Icons Story”—bringing together surviving participants of the original 1940’s in the Age of the Romanovs” at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge. movie with folklorists, artists, filmmakers and historians who have studied and shared in the film’s legacy.

16 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT Jonathan Frelich Radio Project 07-080-173/$28,733.00 Monkey Puzzle Productions David Kunian Radio documentary about the New Orleans guitarist, composer and bandleader Jonathan Frelich.

Finding Solid Ground 07-080-174/$27,688.00 UNO Foundation Molly Peterson Radio documentary explores the state of Louisiana following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita through the prism of social, cultural and economic developments two-years later. L

OUTREACH GRANTS E H The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Outreach Grants encourage community groups throughout the state G to develop humanities projects that celebrate and preserve R

local culture and heritage, as well as introduce people to S E V I A H C

new ones. Designed to fund programs of three months or R A R N E H

less in duration, these grants of up to $2,500 provide for C T U L T E a wide range of interests and needs in a state of such great I L L E N F S

diversity. In 2007 Outreach Grants made a significant O Y S E T

impact on the cultural life of Louisiana’s residents in both R U O C urban and rural areas. O T O H P Abraham Lincoln and History Nellie Lutcher, a recording artist of the 1940s and ‘50s, born in Lake Charles, La., was the subject of an exhibition at the Music Museum of Southwest Louisiana. OG 07-080-091/$1,665.00 Louisiana State University at Shreveport William Pederson Lecture by Dr. Craig Symonds titled “Sixteen Feet Tall: Mapping the new New Orleans: 5th Annual Abraham Lincoln and History.” Linking Catastrophe to Place and Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Pre-Disaster History OG 07-080-095/$2,500.00 Community, Culture and Carnival: OG 07-080-093/$1,000.00 NO/AIDS Task Force Emerging and Lasting Traditions Women for a Better Louisiana Paul Willis OG 07-080-092/$2,496.00 Denise Neu Fifth annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Louisiana State University and A&M College Planning grant for a digital tour project that will link Solimar Otero disaster and media representations to place as well as the Keynote lecture by folklorists Nick Spitzer and Roger pre-Katrina heritage sites of New Orleans. Abrahams for the 2007 meeting of the Louisiana Folklore Society.

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 17 Black Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans Quilt Identification Day OG 07-080-096/$2,000.00 at the West Baton Rouge Museum Tulane University OG 07-080-110/$1,000.00 Beverly Trask West Baton Rouge Museum Eleventh annual New Orleans Dance Festival featuring Lauren Davis the Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indian tribe. The West Baton Rouge Museum will hold a Quilt Identification Day for the purpose of identifying and documenting quilts indigenous The 2nd Annual Cinema on the Bayou Film to or having strong historical/cultural ties to the parish. Festival OG 07-080-097/$2,500.00 6th Annual Coffee and Conversation: Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism A Series of Literary Discussions Pat Mire OG 07-080-111/$2,500.00 Second annual Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Paul Willis L’Annee La Fayette 2007: Sixth annual literary discussion series.

S The Spirit of the Marquis

T OG 07-080-098/$2,000.00 Hurry On Down -

N Louisiana State Bar Association, Francophone Section A Celebration of the Life of Nellie Lutcher

A Marie Breaux OG 07-080-114/$2,500.00 Chautauqua commemorating the life of the Marquis de Imperial Calcasieu Museum R La Fayette and his contribution to US independence. Susan Reed G Exhibit catalog on the life and history of Lake Charles Stand by Me singer/songwriter Nellie Lutcher. H OG 07-080-099/$2,500.00 E The Children & Youth Foundation of the Tom Dent Literary Festival L Music School Bus, Inc. LSU-Shreveport hosted a lecture by Dr. Craig Symonds OG 07-080-116/$2,500.00 Stephen Lee on President Abraham Lincoln. New Orleans Public Library Informance on African American spirituals and black Valencia Hawkins gospel music. Bicentennial Teacher Institute Seventh annual literary festival that highlights the works of OG 07-080-108/$540.00 contemporary African American authors. Madewood-Peabody Trio Institute School West Baton Rouge Museum Outreach Program Jeannie Luckett Conversations with Brenda Marie Osbey OG 07-080-100/$2,000.00 Teacher workshop on the history of West Baton Rouge OG 07-080-117/$1,942.00 Madewood Arts Foundation Parish. Calcasieu Parish Library Keith Marshall Ursula Jones Informance surrounding The Peabody Trio. Hurry On Down: Scholar-in-resident program by Louisiana state poet laureate, A Celebration of the Life of Nellie Lutcher Brenda Marie Osbey in Lake Charles. Film and the Quest for Meaning OG 07-080-109/$2,500.00 OG 07-080-101/$2,425.00 Music Museum of Southwest Louisiana Ascension Parish Library Stella Miller John May Chautauqua on the life and history of Lake Charles Eighth annual film and discussion series in Gonzales. singer/songwriter Nellie Lutcher.

18 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT Mary Anne Pecot de Boisblanc: Louisiana Politics in Film Fading Textures in Our Communities The Spirit of the Acadian Women OG 07-080-127/$2,000.00 OG 07-708-002/$1,959.00 OG 07-080-118/$2,500.00 Center for New American Media Town of Arcadia Acadian Memorial Foundation Inc Louis Alvarez Joycalyn Ann Skinner Shirley LeBlanc Celebrating election season with two documentaries films: Exhibition and lecture on the history and architecture of Exhibition and catalogue on Louisiana primitive artist Mary Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics (1992) and Uncle Earl north Louisiana in the towns of Arcadia and Dubach. Anne Pecot de Boisblanc. (1986), this film discussion evening explored the history, personalities, and legacy of the state’s unique political Louisiana Archaeological Society 2008 North Pole - Crossroads Across the World culture. Annual Conference OG 07-080-119/$2,400.00 OG 07-708-004/$2,245.00 Ruston Main Street The Dixie Overland Highway Louisiana Archaeological Society Judy Burt OG 07-708-001/$400.00 George Riser International festival highlighting the diverse ethnic Bossier Parish Libraries Dr. Richard Gould will give the keynote address, entitled communities of Lincoln Parish. Pamela Carter Disaster Archaeology, at the 2008 conference.

Slideshow and lecture on the history of the Dixie-Overland L

New Orleans’ Loaved Legacy 1929-Present Highway. Visual Memories: My Acadian Ancestors – E

OG 07-080-120/$2,500.00 Mary Anne Pecot de Boisblanc H Oak Street Association Inc OG 07-708-005/$2,325.00 Marilyn Kearney Friends of the Old Natchitoches Courthouse Museum Inc G

Festival surrounding the history and culture of the Carolyn Harrington R

authentic New Orleans po-boy sandwich. Exhibition and lecture comparing the works of three A

Louisiana primitive artists — Mary Anne Pecot de N Cajun Music Songwriting Symposium: Boisblanc, Clementine Hunter and Sarah Albritton. T History and Traditions S OG 07-080-122/$1,537.00 Like Two Brothers: City of Eunice Living in a Multiracial Society Ginny Moody OG 07-708-006/$2,500.00 Panel of songwriters discussing the history, inspiration and Loyola University of New Orleans traditions of Cajun songwriting. Phanuel Egejuru Lecture by playwright, humanist and scholar Maryse The Red Dot Tour Conde on multiracial societies and racial conflict. OG 07-080-123/$2,500.00 Iberia Parish Convention & Tourist Bureau The Dove Project Jane Braud OG 07-708-007/$2,500.00 Guided architecture and historic tour of downtown New Iberia. New Orleans Ballet Association Suzanne Hirsch Y T E F F

Agriculture, Archaeaology and Atchafalaya: A Lectures exploring the contributions of African-American C c M I

R choreographers to the art of dance, especially the work of

A Triple A Road Show R E K Y OG 07-080-126/$2,496.00 B Ulysses Dove. O T O H Plaquemine Main Street Program P Kristine Hebert Former Louisiana Poet Laureate Brenda Marie Osbey Presentations on Iberville Parish’s Native American spoke at the Calcasieu Parish Library. heritage and recent archaeology. ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 19 S N O I T C E L L O C L A S I C E P S T M L U Y S E T N R U O C O A T O H P R Photographer Lee Estes of Monroe, La., delivered a slide presentation and lecture on the evolution of U.S. Highway 80, North Louisiana’s first major paved highway. G

H Sew, Sew, Sew: The Making of a New How the Civil Rights Movement Changed and Natalie’s War: E Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Suit Did Not Change Louisiana The Magnificent Life of Natalie Scott L OG 07-708-008/$2,500.00 OG 07-708-011/$954.00 07-080-140/$4,000.00 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Inc University of Louisiana at Lafayette John Scott Don Marshall Michael Martin Life of New Orleanian, Natalie Vivian Scott, decorated war Display of illustrated text panels documenting the Lecture by Dr. Adam Fairclough on “How the Civil Rights hero in two world wars, leading newspaperwoman (New making of a Mardi Gras Indian suit from initial design Movement Changed –and Did Not Change –Louisiana.” Orleans States) , author, award-winning playwright and to its use. performer, founder of the Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, LOUISIANA PUBLISHING owner/restorer of the Court of Two Sisters and editor of Bayou Lafourche Corridor Tour INITIATIVE GRANTS the Double Dealer literary magazine. OG 07-708-010/$1,000.00 The LEH established its Louisiana Publishing Initiative grants Lafourche Heritage Society to help writers and photographers tell the endless stories of The Abduction of Molly Digby: A True Story of Martha Hodnett Louisiana history, landscape, people, towns and cities, Race, Justice and Reconstruction in New Orleans Planning grant for a website on the history and triumphs and tragedies, music and literature, and architectural 07-080-142/$4,000.00 heritage of communities along Bayou Lafourche. monuments to its living and dead. Thanks in part to these Loyola University of New Orleans grants, writers, photographers and publishers have produced Michael Ross for the public many outstanding publications that explore In the midst of Radical Reconstruction, a case of child Louisiana’s contribution to the humanities in literature, history, abduction captured the attention of New Orleans citizens languages, music, cultural anthropology and folklife. after becoming intertwined with the sweeping political and social changes taking place in the South. 20 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans 07-080-143/$4,000.00 Elsa Hahne Publication documents the unique culture and diversity of New Orleans by looking at food memories and food practices among home cooks in the city.

The Importance of Being Ernie K-Doe 07-080-146/$4,000.00 Ben Sandmel The life of late rhythm & blues singer Ernie K-Doe, “The Emperor of the World,” a figurehead of New Orleans’ rich legacy of grassroots, participatory surrealism. L

OUR TOWN GRANTS E H Community life is a hallmark of America. The very notion of how we define community harkens back to the small town or rural settlement model. G Unfortunately, many of Louisiana’s communities have changed or are in danger of becoming extinct. Consequently, the LEH instituted Our Town R

Community History Grants to document the histories of Louisiana’s A communities before they are lost forever. N T

Culminating in books, exhibits, websites and/or walking/ driving tours, Our S Town grants encourage the development of comprehensive local history projects. Community histories are an important way to get members of the public involved in humanities projects that strengthen community pride and create a sense of commonality.

If Headstones Could Talk… Masonic Cemetery Tour OG 07-080-124/$2,500.00 City of Abbeville Charlene Beckett S Living history presentation of the Masonic Cemetery in historic downtown I C N A R Abbeville. F R E T S E V L Y S Y B O T O H P Mardi Gras Indians, such as Pernell Butler of the Yellow Pocahontas tribe, were the subject of the 11th Annual New Orleans Dance Festival at Tulane University.

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 21 2007 HUMANITIES AWARDS HONOREES

The LEH’s annual Humanities Awards Ceremony, supported by Capital One Bank, honors Louisianians who have made outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of the humanities. The 2007 ceremony was held March 24 at Houmas House Plantation and Gardens in Darrow, La. 2007 honorees were as follows: • The 2007 Humanist of the Year was J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D. , Executive Director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, affiliated with the University of New Orleans, since 1999. After years of planning and construction, Gruber S presided over the grand opening of the Ogden Museum’s new 47,000 square- D foot Stephen Goldring Hall in 2003. Active as a curator and author, he has R published numerous books and catalogues, including his most-recent Dunlap:

A William Dunlap (2006) and Missing New Orleans (2005, reprinted 2006), which received the LEH’s 2006 Book of the Year Award. Gruber has also been the W executive producer of four award-winning documentary films: Poetic Vision: Will

A Henry Stevens ; William Dunlap: Objects Found and Fashioned ; A House of Many Memories and The Place I Know . S • The Award for Lifetime Achievement was given to Susan Larson , Book Editor

E for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a founding board member of the I Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. In 1999 LSU Press published T

I Larson’s book The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans (funded with an LEH

N publication grant), which gave a witty and scholarly overview of New Orleans’ 2007 LEH Humanities Award winners were, seated from left, writers and books from the city’s earliest days. Susan Larson, John Magill, Diego Gonzales, D.A. “Butch” A • Awards for Individual Achievements in the Humanities were given to Mary Jill Gautreaux, Richard Campanella and Sandra Chappell; standing from left: Douglas Brinkley, Jed Horne, Mary Jill Brody, Ph.D., M Brody, Ph.D. , the Fred B. Kniffen Professor of Geography and Anthropology at Dr. Vincent J. Marsala and Pierre Lebovics. inset: J. Richard U Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; and John Magill , Head of Research at Gruber, Ph.D., executive director of the Ogden Museum of

H The Historic New Orleans Collection, and Pierre Lebovics, Consul General of Southern Art in New Orleans, was named the Louisiana the . Endowment for the Humanities’ 2007 Humanist of the Year.

H • The Chair’s Award for Institutional Support was presented to Louisiana State

E University in Shreveport , a critical partner for the LEH in providing cultural and educational programming to Northwest Louisiana. The LEH has awarded the L university and its faculty almost $900,000 in grant funds for programs such as our Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study, RELIC, museum exhibitions and numerous other projects. LSU in Shreveport is a major partner with the LEH and Caddo Public School System in a $1 million grant through the U.S. Gulf Coast ; Jed Horne for Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of an American Department of Education’s Teaching American History program. City ; and Richard Campanella, Ph.D. , for Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before • An award for Public Humanities Programming was presented to North the Storm . Louisiana Folklife, Inc. for its community history, From Bouef to Beaucoup: • The Humanities Teacher of the Year Award was presented to Diego Gonzales of Benjamin Vintage Tales of Caldwell Parish. Franklin High School in New Orleans. • Humanities Book of the Year Awards were presented to Douglas Brinkley, • Legislative Awards were presented to U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal , and State Senators Willie Mount Ph.D. , for The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi (Lake Charles) and State Senator D.A. “Butch” Gautreaux (Morgan City).

22 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT Suzan G. Allen Francis A. DeCaro, Ph.D. Danella P. Hero Mary G. McBride, Ph.D. Sanna Randolph Raleigh A. Suarez, Ph.D. Lafayette Baton Rouge Belle Chasse Shreveport Alexandria Lake Charles Vaughan Baker, Ph.D. Hon. James L. Dennis Otis A. Herbert, Jr., Ph.D. Jack McCarthy Helaine Razovsky, Ph.D. Carole R. Taylor, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans Lafayette Baton Rouge Natchitoches New Orleans A. David Barry, Ph.D. William M. Detweiler, J.D. Homer L. Hitt, Ph.D. Kathleen Heim McCook, Ph.D. Andrew Reck, Ph.D. Cecil Taylor, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans New Orleans Baton Rouge New Orleans Baton Rouge Melinda Bartley, Ph.D. Dardanella Ennis, Ph.D. Sen. William Jefferson Alden J. McDonald Jean Reeves Maxine Taylor, Ph.D. New Orleans Grambling New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans Natchitoches Reginald Bess, Ph.D. David Eppler Ben D. Johnson F. Charles McMaines, J.D. Doris Reggie Phyllis Taylor L Langston Pineville Natchitoches Baton Rouge Crowley New Orleans E Warren M. Billings, Ph.D. Neil T. Erwin, J.D. Jerah W. Johnson, Ph.D. Doris McWilliams Miles Richardson, Ph.D. Sibal S. Taylor New Orleans Shreveport New Orleans Shreveport Baton Rouge Baton Rouge H Elizabeth Bingham Randall Feldman Theodore R. Kauss, Ph.D. David E. Middleton, Ph.D. Mrs. Rupert Richardson Hon. Gene Thibodeaux

Baton Rouge New Orleans Shreveport Thibodaux Baton Rouge Lake Charles P

Rabbi Murray Blackman Anne Fitzgerald Peggy Kinsey Saul Mintz Ronald Robert Morris Taft Thomas A

New Orleans Alexandria Shreveport Monroe New Orleans Alexandria S Ralph Brennan Daniel M. Fogel, Ph.D. Glenna Kramer James Montgomery Ron Roberts, Ph.D. Bailey Thompson T New Orleans Baton Rouge Franklin Shreveport DeRidder Shreveport Peggy Brian Fred A. Frey James H. Lake, Ph.D. Sybil Morial Sidney Romero, Ph.D. Stan Tiner B Alexandria Baton Rouge Shreveport New Orleans Hammond Shreveport Mark T. Carleton, Ph.D. Gary B. Froeba Beverly D. Latimer Stephen A. Moses Thomas Ruffin Rev. David Trickett O

Baton Rouge New Orleans Lafayette New Orleans Shreveport New Orleans A

Thomas Chambers, C.S.C., Ph.D. Anthony J. Gagliano, Ph.D. Frances L. Lawrence, Ph.D. G. Leon Netterville, Ph.D. Jerome J. Salomone, Ph.D. Jane Ann Tudor R New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans Baton Rouge Hammond Pineville D Richard Chardkoff, Ph.D. Antoine Garibaldi, Ph.D. Seraphia D. Leyda, Ph.D. Paul T. Nolan, Ph.D. Edward E. Samaha, Ph.D. Sue Turner Monroe New Orleans New Orleans Lafayette Ruston Baton Rouge M Millie M. Charles Aline M. Garrett, Ph.D. Cynthia Lowenthal, Ph.D. Hope Norman William R. Savage, Ph.D. Charles Vincent, Ph.D.

New Orleans Lafayette New Orleans Alexandria New Orleans Baton Rouge E

Joy Clemons, J.D. Tony Gelderman, J.D. Walter M. Lowery, Ph.D. John M. Norris, Ph.D. Darwin H. Shrell, Ph.D. Neari F. Warner, Ph.D. M Baton Rouge New Orleans Shreveport Lake Charles Baton Rouge Grambling Henry Cobb, Ph.D. Caroline Gilliland Ann Lowrey James L. Olney, Ph.D. Msgr. Alexander O. Sigur Liz White, Ed.D. B

Baton Rouge Alexandria Alexandria Baton Rouge Lafayette Ruston E

Jeff Cowart Sylvia Klumok Goodman Fr. George F. Lundy, Ph.D., S.J. Lise Pederson, Ph.D. Lanier Simmons Robert C. Whitemore, Ph.D. R Leesburg Shreveport New Orleans Lake Charles Avery Island New Orleans S Hon. James J. Cox Morgan J. Goudeau III, J.D. Louis J. Lupin, J.D. Huel D. Perkins, Ph.D. Hon. Anne L. Simon Nathaniel Wing, Ph.D. Lake Charles Opelousas New Orleans Baton Rouge New Iberia Baton Rouge Michael Craft Alfred G. Guillaume, Ph.D. Michael H. Madison Emma Bradford Perry, Ed.S. Lorraine Slacks Everett Williams, Ph.D. Shreveport New Orleans Shreveport Baton Rouge Monroe New Orleans Betty Lee Crain Sandra M. Gunner Yale Mandel, Ph.D. Sheela Plater Fraser Snowden, Ph.D. Frank Williams, Jr. Monroe New Orleans Shreveport Thibodaux Natchitoches Shreveport Richard E. D’Aquin Edward Haas, Ph.D. Vincent Marino, Ph.D. Jessie J. Poesch, Ph.D. Robert C. Snyder Alma Young, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans Lafayette New Orleans Ruston New Orleans Thomas C. David Elton C. Harrison, Ph.D. Judy P. Martinez, J.D. Nick Pollacia Jr. Thilo Steinschulte Rabbi Richard Zionts Alexandria New Orleans Metairie Leesville Alexandria Shreveport Moselle Dearbone, Ph.D. Mark H. Heller. CLU, CPC Peter Mayer Peggy Prenshaw, Ph.D. George A. Stokes, Ph.D. Alexandria New Orleans New Orleans Baton Rouge Natchitoches

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 23 ALTRUISTS: $5,000 PLUS Dorothy Lawrence Dr. William Jenkins Mr. & Mrs. Terence Casey Noreen Lapeyre J. Craig Scherf The ALMAR Foundation Anil Nanda M.D. Cassandra Knobloch Katherine Cecil Ann Laury Mr. & Mrs. Adolf Schroeder AT&T Louisiana Roger Ogden Dr. Henry Lacey Dr. William Cooper Jr. Marjorie Lavine Duke Shackelford Lyndon & Janine Barrois Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Douglas Mabile Arthur Crais Jr. Elena LeBlanc Maude Sharp Booth-Bricker Foundation Dr. Alice Pecoraro Mr. Peter Mayer Mr. & Mrs. John Day Jr. Saundra Levy Dr. Fraser Snowden Capital One, NA Dr. William Pederson Dr. Mary McBride Mr. & Mrs. Don Descant Charles Levy III Marti & David Speights Citgo Petroleum Corporation M. Cleland Powell III Senator Willie Mount Brown Dossett Dr. & Mrs. David Lilien Michael St. Martin –Lake Charles Complex Rosemary Ryan Laura Simon Nelson E. Anne Dunn Janet Limouze Ms. Carter Stevens John Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Toth Mr. & Mrs. C. Howard Nichols Connie Eble Jeanne Linam Micki Beth Stiller Community Foundation of Shreveport- Renee Vanover Eric Overmyer Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Ecton Dr. David Lindenfeld Mary Lee Sweat & Tom Gault Bossier Michael Wilkinson Dr. Lawrence Powell Pamela Ehlers Wilma Longstreet Danille Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Randy Ewing Woldenberg Foundation Dr. Helaine Razovsky Mr. & Mrs. Lucas Ehrensing Mrs. Cedric Lowrey Paul Thionville Goldring Family Foundation Janet Wood Francoise B. Richardson Ruth Estorge Joseph Lykes III Elizabeth Thomas GPOA Foundation Carol Riddle Barbara Ewell Brigitta Malm Ann Torczon Gumbo Foundation PATRONS: $500 - $999 Dr. & Mrs. Randy Sassone Mr. & Mrs. Randall Feldman Keith Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Bert Turner Diana Helis Henry Fund of the Helis Dr. & Mrs. Charles Aprill Samuel Shepherd , Jr. Ms. Julie Fishelson Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mayer Lorraine Underwood Foundation Fredrick Barton Luella Snyder Ms. M. Fisher-Giorlando Charles McCain Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jack Van Lopik Jones Walker Mr. & Mrs. Ben Brady Marilyn Sonnier Ms. Rosemarie Fowler Mr. & Mrs. John McCray Elizabeth Vandersteen S Kevin Kelly Lorraine Brownell Ms. E. A. Stafford Mr. & Mrs. Antoine Garibaldi Ruth McCusker Donald Walker R Vera Martin Kirgis Glenda Erwin Moise Steeg , Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tom David Gay Ed McGowin Dr. & Mrs. Roy Weiner J. Brandon Ewing Mr. & Mrs. Felton Suthon Carol Anne Gayle Mrs. Edward McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Myron Wellan

O Libby Dufour Fund Gustaf Westfeldt Mc lhenny Family Dr. & Mrs. Quentin Falgoust Mrs. Christie Weeks Carol Gelderman Dr. Melanie McKnight Dr. Everett Williams

N I Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Gaines Marion Weiss George Gerhold Dr. Dennis McSeveney Paul Wilson Dr Kurt Gitter Mr. & Mrs. Jasper Welch Stephanie Glass Mary Beth Meyer Donna Winters O The Irene & C.B. Pennington Foundation Dr. Gwendolyn Hall Lucille Golden Mrs. Joel & Dr. Bert Meyers Mary Woosley D Sheila & Drew Ranier Dr. Richard Levine ADVOCATES: $100 - $249 Frank Granger, APLC Louis Monte Eileen Wrigley Mr. & Mrs. George Rodrigue Mark Manguno Dr. Stephen Abshire Mr. & Mrs. L. W. Gray David Ray Morris Joanna Wurtele H Sanford Foundation Dr. Jessie Poesch Donald Adams Dr. Randolph Green Marjorie Morrison Zigler Museum

E Dr. Michael Sartisky Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Reck Philip Andrepont Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Guidry Harriet Murrell Mrs. R.J. Rowland Jr. Martin Aronson Jessica Hack Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Nesbitt FRIENDS: $35 - $99 L Selley Foundation Josef Sternberg Memorial Fund Dr. Ray Authement Dr. Janet Haedicke Judith Newman Acadian Memorial Foundation Inc Whitney National Bank SPONSORS: $250 - $499 Mrs. O.P. Avinger Ellen Hall Nicholls State University Brian Adams Zemurray Foundation Suzan Allen J.P. Barr O. L. Harper Winnie Nichols William Rodney Allen Mel Altschul Beate Becker Leo Hebert Jr. Darlene Pelletier Orissa Arend MENTORS: $1,000 - $4,999 Mr. & Mrs. David & Cindy Barry Dorothy Benge Jean Heid Mrs. & Mr. Mary and Freddie Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ashworth Paul Alker Mr. & Mrs. James Bean Mr. & Mrs. Edward Benjamin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Greg Henkelmann Edward Picou Dr. & Mrs. William Bailey William Blake Dr Isidore & Marion Cohn , Jr. Carolyn Bertrand Phyllis Heroy Patricia Pitre Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Baker Jr. Darnell Bludworth & Michael Boyle Dr. & Mrs. Paul Davis , Jr. David Bertrand Dr. Daryl Holmes Mr. & Mrs. David Plater Catherine Banos James Cahn Patrick Descants John Biguenet Gail Hood Kent Prince Dr. & Mrs. Robert Bareikis Thomas C. David, Jr. Michael Fawer Catherine Bonner Martha Irwin Tom Ray Mr. & Mrs. Beauregard Bassich Philip & Lucie Earhart Natalie Fielding Mr. & Mrs. Al Bordelon Edward Jahncke Jr. Doris Reggie C. Delle Bates Joshua Force Mr. & Mrs A. Glenn Flournoy Emoor Bordelon Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Jones Laurie Ricchiuti Carol Bayonne Mr. & Mrs. Paul Haygood Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ford Bruce Bordes Judge & Mrs. Stuart Kay Jr. Dr. Susan Roach Bayou Lafourche Folklife Museum Danella Hero Senator Butch Gautreaux Dr. & Mrs. Darrell Bourque Glenna Kramer Patrick D. M. Rogan Jim Beam Peter Hilbert Charles Gerard , Jr. Jane Warner Brown Dr. Darrell Kruger Anthony Rotolo Caryn Bell Mr. & Mrs. Norman Kinsey Dr. & Mrs. Roman Heleniak Marda Burton Virginia Kurzweg Blair Ruble Marian Berkett Catherine Kuhlman Mr. and Mrs. Bill & Susan Hess Mrs. Mary Katherine Callaway John Laborde Shelby Russ, Jr. Rosemary Bernard Charles Landry Dr. Laurabeth Hicks Thomas Camp William Stephen Lambert Dr. Gary Sander Everett Besch Mr. & Mrs. James Lapeyre, Jr. Gregory Holt Reba Capers Mr. & Mrs. H. Merritt Lane III C. Drew Sanders Dr. & Mrs. Oscar Bienvenu

24 ANNUAL 2007 REPORT Michael Blache Mark Couvillon Ms. Bobbie Jean Gattuso Anne Landry Terry Murphy Pamela Sontag Laurence Bland Barry Cowan Rev. & Mrs. Gedge Gayle Marlin Landry Leslie Murphy Gerard St. Martin Mackie Blanton Carol Cox Shelby Gilley Mike Landry Dr. Stella Nesanovich Colette Stelly Edward Blasi, CFP Cybil Curtis Sheryl Gillikin Colleen Larocca New Orleans Public Library Mrs. Harold Stream Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Blitzer Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cusimano Carolyn Gray Barbara Larriviere Saidee Watson Newell Mr. & Mrs. F. W. Stromeyer Dr. John Bobear Helen Darfus Judy Greer Joy Larson Charlotte Norman Tara Sutton Yvette Boling Ms. A.B. Dawson Dr. Wilfred Guerin Linda LeBlanc Ruth Olivera Michael Szush Gretchen Bomboy Dr. Frank De Caro Mr. & Mrs. Robert Guida Lemieux Galleries Scott Owens, Jr. Dr. Carole Tabor Melissa Bonin Olga Guardia De Smoak Greg Guirard Mrs. Royce Levy Dr. Leslie Parr Emily Taylor Fred Bookhardt Linda Deane Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Gwin III Lisa Lewis Sybil Patten Don & Mary Terry William Borah Gary Deleaumont William Halsell Mr. & Mrs. Roy Lilly Bonnie Peel Robert Thibeaux Dr. Patricia Brady Friends of the Delta Music Museum Dr. Jeffery Hankins Lynn Long Allison Pena Marianne Thompson Raymond Brady Christopher Dennis Mr. & Mrs. James Harlan Mr. & Mrs. John & Kathleen Lovretich Dr. Elizabeth Penfield W. Howard Thompson Bobbie Brasher Catherine Dessommes Clyde Lee Harrelson Jake Lowenhaupt Mr. & Mrs. Robert Perez Patrick Tremie Stephen Braud Irene Di Maio Richard Harrison Marie Lowman Marlyn Peridon Mr. William Trotter Kristy Braud Lloyd Dore III John Hauer Fred Loy Mr. & Mrs. Shep Pleasants Jr. Susan Tucker Stuart Braud Kenneth Ducote Dr. & Mrs. Sanders Hearne Irene Mackenroth Mary Sue Ply US Army Corps of Engineers L William Breaux, Jr. Richard Dunkin Jr. David Henington David Madden Jon Pruet Bernard Keith Vetter Jane Brewer Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dupuy Martha Hodnett Madison Historical Society Mr. & Mrs. George Pugh Dr. Charles Vincent E

Mr. & Mrs. James Britt Jo Anne Durand Louise Hoffman Billie Malone Mr. & Mrs. Natasha & Samuel Ramer Craig Vincent H Opal Broussard Jo-Iles Edwards Mr. & Mrs. David Holcombe Arlene Manguno Mrs. Gregory Ravare Linda Volentine

Diana Broussard Ms. Pernell Ellis Marybelle Holstead Dr. Nancy Manuel Alma Reed Scott Wainwright D Carmel Brown Lin Emery Karl Holzmuller Dr. Vincent Marsala Elizabeth Reed Darlene Walk O Carolyn Bruder Mr. & Mrs. Femi Euba Donna Hopkins Nora Marsh Sally Reeves Roxana Waller

Mrs. David Buttross Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ed Ewbank Susan Hoskins Earnestine Madison Marshall Deborah Marcella Rehn, AIA Sheryl Waltman N

Gail Byrd Gerald Fackrell III Mary Howell Carol Mathias Virginia Rigamer Joyce Waters O Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Cadow William Fagaly Remona Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Maverick Christina Riquelmy Clyde Watkins Lorraine Cagle Woody Falgoust Paul Hulin Dr. Jonathan May Mr. & Mrs. Gene Rogas Susan Weaver R

Vivian Cahn Megan Farrell Joanne Hummer Enola May Marlin Eugene Ross Diana Weinstein S Mr. & Mrs. Charles Caillouet Daina Farthing Henley Hunter Dr. John May Ms. Pat Roy Geraldine West Dr. Joan Cain Rebecca Fielding Dr. Dolliann Hurtig Andrew Mayer Judy Fletcher Rushton Ann White Calcasieu Parish Library Susan Ford Fiser Iberia Parish Library Mrs. Jere McBride Martha Ryan Mrs. Ronald White Cheryl Carazo Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Flaherty Jane Johnson Judith McBroom Coleen Salley Gregory White Tamra Carboni Richard Flatau Mr. & Mrs. J. Clayton Johnson Colin McCormick Dr. Gerard Scardino Jerald White Dr. & Mrs. Michael Carey Robert Florence Shelley Johnson Dana McCormick Alice Scheelar Anne Wilbourne Maurice Carr Frederick Flynt Barbara Jones Margaret McKenzie Claude Schlesinger William Wilkinson Roberta Carrow-Jackson Douglas Foard Marie Jones Regina Meadows Helen Schneidau Casey Willems Pamela Carter Fontainebleau High School Roger Kamenetz A. J. Meek Mary Shaddock Connie Williams Gwendolyn Toney Cason Michael Fontham Susan Mintz Kantrow Ms. N. Meinel Elizabeth Shannon A.B. Williams Dr. & Mrs. Eddie & Faye Cazayoux Ford Museum Mr. & Mrs. Randall Keator Evelyn Merz Margaret Sharpe Pam Williams Sandra Chappell George Foster Louis Keller Ellen Collins Meyers Dr. & Mrs. J. Rahn Sherman Jean Williamson Dr. Flora Cherry Marjorie Fowler Jason Kelley Howard Mielke Mr. & Mrs. John Simon Bruce Wing Catherine Coates Suzanne Friloux Mr. & Mrs. David Kerstein Katherine Miller Catherine Simoneaux Dr. Seborn Woods Jeffrey Coates Bertha Fronerberger Jill Kesten Edmond Miranne, Jr. Bradley Simonson Richard Worley Caroline Cody Carl Fugler Sandra Kramer Barbara Morgan Beverly Smith Kenneth Wright Karen Cole Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Gagliano Edward Kurtz Bruce Morgan Charlene Smith Mr. & Mrs. Paul Zorzi Becky Collins Mr. & Mrs. James Gardner Dr. Earle Labor Dr. Mary Morton Susan Smith Mr. & Mrs. David Conroy Marie Gardner Lafourche Heritage Society Moscow Nights, Inc. William Smither Melissa Cook Mrs. Maxie Garrett Leroy Landon Chr. Mummelthey Karen Snyder

ANNUAL 2007 REPORT 25 The Louisiana Humanities Center at Turners’ Hall 938 Lafayette Street, Suite 300 New Orleans, LA 70113 (504) 523-4352 Toll-free in Louisiana 1 (800) 909-7990 www.leh.org