A NNUAL R EPORT Contents

PAGE 1 Board and Staff

PAGE 2 Introduction

PAGE 4 PRIME TIME Family Reading Time

PAGE 5 Cultural VistasMagazine

PAGE 6 Readings in Literature and Culture (RELIC)

PAGE 7 Teacher Institutesfor Advanced Study

PAGE 8 Grants

Grants Analysis (p. 8-9)

Teaching American History (p. 10)

Key Ingredients: America by Food (p. 11)

Southern Humanities Media Fund (p. 11) About the cover: Our Town (p.12) Humanist of the Year (p.12) Photographer Frank Relle’s image titledLaussat , of a raised State Poet Laureate (p.12) Creole shotgun house in standing beside a Public Humanities Grants (p. 13) home that collapsed during the fury of Hurricane Katrina, epitomizes the mix of resilience and destruction that Documentary Film & Radio Grants (p. 15) defined 2005 in the hard-hit regions of South Louisiana. Louisiana Publishing Initiative (p. 16)

Outreach Grants (p. 18)

American Routes (p. 21)

Tennessee Williams (p. 21)

PAGE 22 2004 Humanities Awards

PAGE 23 Past Board of Directors

PAGE 24 2004 Donors to the LEH Board of Directors Administrative Staff Consultants

DIANNE BRADY LINDA SPRADLEY Project Co-Director Legislative Liaison NANCY GUIDRY PRIME TIME

Metairie FAMILY READING TIME ® LINDA LANGLEY Program Education SANDRA GUNNER MICHAEL FAYE FLANANGAN New Orleans SARTISKY, Project Co-Director JOHN F. T REMBLEY R. LEWIS PH.D. PRIME TIME Network Administrator MCHENRY, MARK H. HELLER, CLU, CPC FAMILY READING TIME J.D. ® New Orleans President/ LAURA LADENDORF, Executive MIRANDA RESTOVIC KARIN MARTIN, CHAIRMAN, WILLIAM JENKINS, PH.D. Director Assistant Director New Orleans TOAN NGUYEN, Baton Rouge PRIME TIME & BECCA RAPP JOHN R. KEMP FAMILY READING TIME ® Designers, ALICE G. PECORARO, PH.D. KEVIN KELLY Deputy Director Louisiana Cultural Vistas VICE CHAIR, Morgan City New Orleans for Grants & Public Affairs SHANTRELL ADAMS Assistant Director JANET WOOD F. C HARLES MCMAINS, J.D. WARREN MEYER PRIME TIME TREASURER, Lafayette Baton Rouge Associate Director FAMILY READING TIME ® of Administration CYNTHIA LOWENTHAL, PH.D. MELINDA MINTZ DAVID JOHNSON 1 SECRETARY, New Orleans Monroe MIKE BOYLE Publications Director Director of Development Managing Editor/Art Dir. JOHN BIGUENET LAWRENCE POWELL, PH.D. Louisiana Cultural Vistas New Orleans New Orleans JENNIFER MITCHEL Associate Director DAVID SMITH RALPH BRENNAN M. CLELAND POWELL Assistant Editor New Orleans New Orleans LOUANN MOREHOUSE Louisiana Cultural Vistas Assistant Director THOMAS C. DAVID HELAINE RAZOVSKY, PH.D. STEPHANIE MACKIN Alexandria Natchitoches ERIN MACINNES Executive Manager Assistant Director PHILIP EARHART MARGARET RITCHEY EVE TAO Lake Charles Lafayette JIM SEGRETO Bookkeeper Project Director, RELIC DAVID EPPLER RENEE VANOVER (Readings in Literature BARBARA LOPEZ Pineville Berwick & Culture) Administrative Assistant

NEIL ERWIN, J.D. MARY WERNER Shreveport Lake Charles

ROSEMARY UPSHAW EWING LIZ WHITE, ED.D. Quitman Ruston

GARY B. FROEBA FRANK WILLIAMS, JR. New Orleans Shreveport LEH Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA! Like all Louisianians, the year 2005 school history teachers. The first three presented the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with its greatest institutes will be held at LSU-Shreveport challenges ever — how to continue to keep the humanities in the lives of our in June 2006. This also was the second people and the recovery of our state while so many people and institutions year of the LEH’s $1 million Teaching struggled for survival. It was a challenge we met with full determination, despite American History grant for the Orleans reduced financial resources from the state. Parish Public School. Five institutes in Though Katrina forced the evacuation of New Orleans, the LEH had set up American and Louisiana history were temporary offices within four days, first in Ruston in north Louisiana and two weeks held at Loyola University in June 2005. later in Prairieville just south of Baton Rouge. Our staff, which had been dispersed We had a final enrollment of 111 teachers over seven states and facing, in many cases, personal tragedies in their own lives, for an average of about 22 teachers per worked dedicatedly to keep LEH programs alive. We realized that our state and institute. This was one more than our Hpeople needed the humanities in their lives perhaps more than ever before. LEH target of 110. All five institutes were well programs continued to address needs such as family literacy, teacher professional attended and the teachers and institute professors were enthusiastic. development and cultural tourism that are crucial to the quality of life today and for future generations. By October 1, we were able to return to our offices at the LEH CAPITAL CAMPAIGN ANDFUND-RAISING Humanities Center in New Orleans, despite flooding in the building’s first floor. Since its inception, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has invested With the state facing severe financial difficulties, the governor was forced to cut 2 nearly $40 million to bring Louisiana’s people, history, cultures, and stories to local, the state’s budget. As a result, the LEH in December cancelled its spring 2006 national, and international audiences. More than 14,000 Louisiana residents have round of grants because of a $275,000 cut in state operating and program support. participated in Prime Time Family Reading Time programs, more than 81,000 have During the last three years, the state has reduced its appropriation for program attended RELIC programs, and almost 3,500 educators have enrolled in LEH’s funding to LEH three times for a total loss of $450,000 annually. Also lost were the Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. Millions more have attended LEH funded $485,000 in Capital Outlay funds the LEH was slated to receive to complete the programs throughout the state or have watched LEH funded documentaries. The Louisiana Humanities Center. The LEH also had to cancel its fall 2005 public bulk of that investment was possible through state and federal appropriations and humanities grants deadline because of earlier state budget cuts. grants the LEH received through competitive applications. Despite those challenges, the LEH — through its national award-winning programs, Louisiana Cultural Vistasmagazine, Prime Time Family Reading Time Led by its Board of Directors, the LEH has moved to a new, higher level of and grants awarded to communities across the state — remained the nation’s commitment to Louisiana by authorizing expanded private sector fund raising efforts leading state humanities council. It continued to create greater public access to and a $4.3 million capital campaign. When the campaign is complete, the Louisiana “our shared heritage.” Humanities Center will have a 120-person auditorium and four seminar rooms, all with state-of-the-art presentational technology. The Campaign will also see the creation of a small true endowment for the LEH, providing the organization (an endowment in TEACHINGAMERICANHISTORY GRANTS name only) with funds to expand programming or fill funding gaps whenever necessary.

In October 2005, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a $1 million It has been most gratifying to see the response to our efforts throughout the “Teaching American History” grant to the LEH and the Caddo Parish School state. Fund raising highlights include having raised nearly $3.3 million in the System to conduct a three-year series of summer institutes for Caddo Parish public Capital Campaign and nearly $70,000 in private sector and $285,000 in NEH

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES Louisiana Cultural Vistas continued to gain greater attention and acclaim. With a funding commitments for Prime Time Family Reading Time. We heartily thank readership exceeding 50,000, Louisiana Cultural Vistas is a lasting way for the LEH the individuals, foundations, and corporations that have stepped forward with a to promote and explore Louisiana’s rich cultural heritage. In 2005, the magazine donation, pledge, or planned gift. We thank our Board of Directors, each of whom received eight New Orleans Press Club awards, including three first-place awards has made a leadership gift, setting the tone for this next chapter in the LEH’s for Best Public Relations Publication, Cheryl Gerber’s photo story “Cleaning Your efforts to provide access to life-long educational opportunity to ALL Louisianans. Gun,” and Dr. Sartisky’s editorial, “The Dance of Death.” Dr. Sartisky also received the Ashton Phelps Sr. Memorial Award for editorials. Bob Coke’s photo LEH PROGRAMS story on Preservation Hall took a third place award. And another third place award went to Louis Sahuc’s photo story on the View Carré. Cheryl Gerber also received The LEH, however, is about providing opportunities. Whether through the the Hal Ledet President’s Award for best print photography, and an honorable dramatic expansion of PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME, receipt of a mention went to Nell Campbell’s photo story on Louisiana landscapes. major Teaching American History grant, our Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study, Two other major LEH-supported projects also are featured in this report. RELIC, our grants programs or Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, the LEH’s American Routes is a nationally acclaimed two-hour weekly radio program, statewide programs reached deep into communities throughout the state. We featuring Louisiana roots music. In 2005, the show reached 447 stations in 236 radio continued to excel in developing and supporting programs that are now national markets, including XM Satellite Radio, and a weekly audience of more than models for their quality. 500,000 listeners. The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, Louisiana rarely has been the source of a solution to the problems of illiteracy. completing its 19h year in 2005, continued to gain national recognition as one of Too often, our state has been cited among its dismal examples. Yet, in 2005, our the nation’s premier literary events. PRIME TIME completed programs in 35 sites, representing 24 parishes and reaching 1,400 young people and their parents or guardians. In addition, PRIME TIME programs were held in California, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and . NEH funds also targeted sites in GRANTS California, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and South Dakota. Since PRIME TIME began in While practically every area of LEH programming grew during the past year, 3 1991, it has reached 60 of the state’s 64 parishes as well as communities in 35 other much more remains to be done. Several regions of the state are underserved, states, plus the Virgin Islands. This is truly a Louisiana success story. because many communities lack the resources to host programs we support. These Now in its 22nd year, RELIC is a cornerstone of our program initiatives and a are challenges we continue to explore with our turnkey projects. blueprint for successful reading programs. In 2005, LEH, working with local This year’s Annual Report also describes grants projects funded in 2005 to libraries, conducted 28 six-week programs in 26 parishes with over 2,600 Louisiana community organizations, institutions, museums, scholars, writers and film residents signing up for the program. Subjects this year ranged from Louisiana producers. Also in 2005, the LEH published its long-awaited 35-year report. Since biography to immigration literature and from contemporary Southern literature to 1971, the report states, the LEH has invested $38.5 million in humanities programs the history of World War II with a special program on hurricanes in the Gulf of and projects that, together with funds invested by our collaborative partners, Mexico. Since its inception in 1983, RELIC programs have reached over 80,000 represent a total humanities investment of more than $90 million. Louisiana residents in 62 of the state’s 64 parishes. As you will see in the pages that follow, 2005 was a challenging year, thanks to Our highly popular Teacher Institutes for Advance Studies were successful again continued support from the State of Louisiana, the National Endowment for the last year. In December 2005, the LEH provided grant funds for four institutes that Humanities, corporations and hundreds of private donors. It was a year that the will be held in the summer 2006. Since 1985, the LEH has sponsored an intensive Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Board of Directors and staff made series of 174 summer seminars for more than 3,300 Louisiana middle and high important strides in creating even greater public access to the humanities. school teachers, who in turn teach approximately 452,000 students annually. This was in addition to the five Teaching American History Institutes we held at Loyola M University for New Orleans Public School Teachers. ICHAEL SARTISKY, Ph.D., President/Executive Director LEWIS MCHENRY, J.D., 2005 LEH Chair

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT P RIME T IME Family Reading Time

2005Achievements

■ Completed 35 sites in Louisiana, representing 24 parishes. ■ Reached a statewide audience of approximately 1,400 with an average of 40 participants for each weekly session. PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME is a unique ■ Continued expansion as a national model for family reading programs. As intergenerational six- or eight-week literacy program composed of a result of NEH funding, Library Services and Technology Act grants and readings, discussions and storytelling. In 2005, it reached approximately affiliate funds, LEH implemented Prime Time sites in nine other states. 1,400 participants at public libraries, schools, community centers and ■ New Mexico, Kentucky, Nebraska, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, other public venues. This exemplary family-based model featured award- Texas, California and Florida contracted as affiliate states, illustrating their winning children’s books to stimulate discussion about themes and commitment to sustain and expand Prime Time. problems encountered in daily life. ■ NEH funds targeted California, Kansas, Georgia, Ohio and South Dakota. The goals of this humanities project were to encourage parents and 4 Pchildren to bond around the act of reading and learning together, thus reinforcing the role of the family. Prime Time helps children and parents learn how to select and share books, thereby inspiring a lifelong love of books and libraries. In 2005 PRIME TIME completed 35 sites in Louisiana, representing 24 parishes. Since PRIME TIME began in 1991, it has reached 60 of the state’s 64 parishesT as well as communities in 35 other states, plus the Virgin Islands. This program is designed for families with low literacy skills and targets parents with children ages 6 to 10. The format, however, includes a separate pre-literacy group activity for younger siblings. In recognition of the proven potential for replication, the American Library Association continued their supportive efforts for Prime Time through the Office of Public Programs and the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $283,000 grant for national expansion. No state funds were used for these out-of state programs. These programs were supported by federal grants that required regional or national sites and by individual libraries.

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES LCV Louisiana Cultural Vistas

LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS completed its 16th year of publication, focusing on the state’s culture, arts and history — even in 2005 the midst and aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The fall and Awards winter issues dealt extensively with the catastrophic storms’ effects on the state. Despite interruption caused by Katrina and Rita,Louisiana ■ First Place, Best Public Relations Publication. Cultural Vistasdid not miss a publication and continued to bring to the printed page the best in visuals and text from Louisiana scholars, artists, ■ Ashton Phelps Sr. Memorial Award, Michael photographers, fiction writers, poets, essayists, and reviewers. The Sartisky, Editorial, All Categories. quarterly magazine ensures that grant projects that may have reached ■ LCVselect regional populations gain greater visibility on magazine racks and First Place, Editorial, coffee tables in the living rooms, waiting rooms, and offices of more than Michael Sartisky / The Dance of Death, 80,000 readers. Spring 2004. Highlights of the past year include: ■ ■ Dramatic and moving visual images of the havoc wrought by hurricanes Hal Ledet President’s Award, Cheryl Gerber, Katrina and Rita by photographer David Rae Morris, and essays on the Best Print storms, the state, and New Orleans by Wynton Marsalis, Anne Rice, Photography, 5 Richard Ford, Ronnie Virgets, John Biguenet and Roy Blount Jr. All Categories. ■ Historical perspectives of flooding in New Orleans and South Louisiana by John Magill. ■ 1st Place, Photo Story, ■ The musical incubator that was theLouisiana Hayride, the country Cheryl Gerber / Cleaning Your Gun, Winter 2004-05. variety show in Shreveport from 1948-1060. ■ One of Louisiana’s most famed crops and institutions, peppers and ■ 2nd Place, Photo the ubiquitous sauce from them produced by Tabasco, started by Story, Bob Coke / Edmund McIlhenny in 1869. Preservation Hall of ■ Cajun music ambassadors Michael Doucet and the band BeauSoleil. Fame, Summer 2004. ■ Historic look back at the plight of Acadians through the perilous ■ 3rd Place, Photo Story, yet miraculous life of Rosalie Pécot. Also, a look at a new dictionary Louis Sahuc / View Carré, of Louisiana’s vernacular vocabulary, people, places and architecture. Fall 2004. ■ The amazing and vibrant art of New Orleans artist John Scott. ■ America’s only care facility for leprosy patients at Carville in operation ■ Hon. Mention, Photo for nearly 100 years. Story, Nell Campbell / ■ Honoring Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Penn Warren and his Louisiana Landscapes, Fall 2004. literary legacy on the centennial of his birth.

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT RELIC Readings in Literature & Culture

2005Achievements

■ Engaged 28 humanities scholars from 14 institutions and three from the public sector. ■ Delivered 11 different subjects, ranging from Louisiana biography to immigration literature, from contemporary Southern literature to the history of World War II, and a new, special program on hurricanes in Gulf Coast region. READINGS INL ITERATURE ANDC ULTURE (RELIC) has ■ Drew into discussions 2,686 citizens in 25 programs for an evening offered adult readers the opportunity to engage in diverse and session average of 17 persons, this during the loss of four program sites intellectually challenging reading and discussion of literary and historical from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. texts in the humanitiesELIC in local libraries across the state. RELIC is the ■ Delivered programs in 28 locations in 26 parishes throughout the longest running program provided by the Louisiana Endowment for the state, with 17 of them in communities ranging from rural to small town 6 Humanities. in population size. RELIC’s topics speak to the experiences of Louisianians as residents of the state and as American citizens. In response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita that devastated Louisiana, the LEH developed a new three- week program. The LEH tested In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s RHurricane Experience in three pilot locations in December. It received excellent assessments from the public. At least 15 programs of In the Cross Hairs are planned for 2006. RELIC, administered in partnership with the Louisiana Library Association, serves as a gateway for individuals to engage the worlds of ideas and expression about the human experience, and as a vehicle for libraries to diversify their role in their communities. Small towns and rural areas particularly benefit from these high quality programs, as well as newcomers to Louisiana and others with specific interests. Reaching 62 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes since 1983, the scholar-led reading sessions have been held in libraries across the state. RELIC has a total attendance of over 80,000-from all accounts the most widespread and well-attended series of reading projects in the South.

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES T EACHER I NSTITUTES for Advanced

SINCE 1985, THE LEH HAS SPONSORED an intensive series of 174 Study summer seminars for more than 3,300 Louisiana middle and high school teachers, who in turn teach approximately 452,000 students annually. The purpose of this program is to provide teachers with intellectual stimulation and advanced knowledge of the subjects they teach. Originally supported entirely by the LEH with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the series has expanded with support from the State of Louisiana and foundation gifts. In December 2005, the LEH Board approved four Teacher Institutes that will take place during the summer 2006. Most seminars offer graduate credit, feature guest lecturers and provide information on SInternet resources available for classroom use.

FORTHCOMING2006 TEACHER INSTITUTESfor ADVANCED STUDY

■ LOUISIANASTORIES FROM THECIVIL WAR TO THEGULF WAR 05-080-087 / $30,300.00 05-080-094 / $34,217 7 LOUISIANASTATE UNIVERSITY ATEUNICE LOUISIANACOLLEGE Huey Guagliardo Thomas Howell Participants will read and discuss short Teachers will study the home front in stories set in Louisiana, examining them not America during the wars of the last 150 only as works of literature but also for the years, especially with regards to impact on historical, political, socioeconomic and civil liberties, support of or opposition to cultural issues behind the stories. war, role of the press, use of propaganda, ______the effect on minorities and war’s influence on literature.

■ YOUNG READERS, YOUNG THINKERS: ______TEACHING THEHUMANITIES TO ELEMENTARYSTUDENTS ■ BLUES AT THECROSSROADS: 05-080-092 / $31,977 A GEOGRAPHICALSTUDY OFBLUES UNIVERSITY OFLOUISIANA ATMONROE CULTURE IN THELOUISIANA AND Jack Heflin MISSISSIPPIDELTA For elementary school teachers, this 05-080-095 / $35,206 institute will use the Prime Time Family LOUISIANATECH UNIVERSITY Reading Time methodology to teach John Strait literature and poetry. This institute will utilize American blues ______music as a gateway for understanding and teaching the cultural geography and social ■ WARTIME INAMERICA: THE HOME FRONT history of the U.S. South.

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT G RANTS Analysis Summary

THE LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 2005 G RANT P ROFILES awarded 65 grants totaling $466,666 in 2005. These grants ranged from an Areas of Concentration Grants Total Awards % of Funds % of Grants Outreach Grant of $970 to a Teacher Institute for Advanced Study grant General Humanities 23 $220,113 47% 35% Louisiana Humanities 42 $246,553 53% 65% of $35,206. The average grant was $7,179. These grants included funding

for 13 discussion projects averaging $3,292; three documentary films and Location of Awards (by Congresstional District) radio projects averaging $8,883; one electronic media project for $1,297; DIST. 1 / Jindal 5 $20,712 4% 8% 12 exhibitions averaging $8,533; 13 festival projects averaging $6,802; two DIST. 2 / Jefferson 14 $122,563 26% 22% music informances averaging $11,190; two Our Town projects averaging DIST. 3 / Melancon 9 $40,769 9% 14% DIST. 4 / McCrery 5 $26,160 6% 8% $12,168; nine planning grants averaging $996; four publication projects DIST. 5 / Alexander 11 $137,574 29% 17% averaging $3,300; two scholar-in-residence programs averaging $2,250; DIST. 6 / Baker 11 $57,358 12% 17% and four Teacher Institutes averaging $32,925. DIST. 7 / Boustany 8 $56,330 12% 12% T Out of State 2 $5,200 1% 3% Totals 65 $466,666 100% 100%

Format Conference/Discussion/Lecture 13 $42,805 9% 20% Documentary Film & Radio 3 $26,650 6% 5% Electronic Media 1 $1,297 .3% 2% 8 Exhibition 12 $102,400 22% 18% Festival (Literary, Film, Folklife) 13 $88,427 19% 20% Informance 2 $22,380 5% 3% Our Town 2 $24,337 5% 3% Planning 9 $8,970 2% 14% Publication 4 $13,200 3% 6% Scholar-in-Residence 2 $4,500 1% 3% Teacher Institutes 4 $131,700 28% 6% Total 65 $466,666 100% 100%

Size of Grants To $2,000 21 $26,108 6% 32% $2,001-$2,500 18 $44,809 10% 28% $2,501-$7,500 9 $50,000 11% 14% $7,501-$10,000 0 $0 0% 0% $10,001-$15,000 5 $61,727 13% 8% $15,001-$20,000 5 $86,462 19% 8% $20,001-$25,000 3 $65,860 14% 5% $25,001-$30,000 0 $0 0% 0% More than $30,000 4 $131,700 28% 6% Total 65 $466,666 100% 100%

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES 2004 Prime Time sites ANALYSIS of Grants Awarded 2004 Grant sites Public Outreach Grants Humanities Grants Total 2004 RELIC sites Applications Received 56 55 111 Applications Funded 38 27 65 Parishes of teachers % of Applications Funded 68% 49% 59% enrolled in 2004 Institutes LEH Awards $69,717 $396,949 $466,666 Project Cost Sharing $259,911 $3,286,419 $3,546,330 Total $329,628 $3,683,368 $4,012,996

RELIC Readings in Literature & Culture 2005 Library Reading Discussion Project A cooperative project of the LEH and the Louisiana Library Association North Central Southeast Southwest TOTAL Number of programs 14 5 2 7 28 Outright Funds $ 55,014 $ 19,648 $ 7,859 $ 27,507 $ 110,028 FUND % of Total Funds 50% 18% 7% 25% 100% RAISING Library Cost Share $ 40,180 $ 14,350 $ 5,740 $ 20,090 $ 80,360 OTHER Total RELIC Funding $ 95,194 $ 33,998 $ 13,599 $ 47,597 $ 190,388 9 S P MINISTRATIVE E % C 2 I A PRIME TIME L 8% 3% PRIME FamilyFamily ReadingReading TimeTime

TIME P 34% 2005 Library Reading and Discussion Project for Families R North Central Southeast Southwest National Total PROGRAM O RELIC Library Sites 9 7 13 6 54 89 DEVELOPMENT J

Outright Funds $ 66,187 $ 51,479 $ 95,604 $ 44,125 $ 397,123 $ 654,518 E 17% % of Total Funds 26% 20% 37% 17% 100%

AMERICAN ROUTESLOUISIANA C Library Cost Share $ 21,375 $ 16,625 $ 30,875 $ 14,250 $ 128,250 $ 211,375

CULTURAL T Total PT Funding $ 87,562 $ 68,104 $ 126,479 $ 58,375 $ 525,373 $ 865,893

TEACHER VISTAS S INSTITUTES OTHER GRANTS G R A N T S 36%

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT TAH Teaching American History

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Loyola University & New Orleans Public Schools

THE TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY project for New Orleans public school teachers is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s nationwide Teaching American History project. In 2003 the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Orleans Public School System received a $1 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to sponsor summer institutes for U.S. and Louisiana history teachers in the New Orleans public school system. 10 responsibilities.” Subsequently, Loyola University partnered with LEH and NOPS and The project also donated almost $300,000 in graduate tuition waivers to enable the assists teachers in TAHproject. The LEH also has committed nearly $300,000. In 2004, we obtaining the held four institutes at Loyola with a total graduation of 88 public school necessary certification teachers. This year, the LEH organized five institutes and graduated in history which is now 111 teachers. We have graduated 101 percent of the number of teachers targeted for tbese two years. required. Each course The 2005 courses were taught by Loyola University history alone provides 45 of the professors Judith Hunt and Leslie Parr, historian required 90 CLUs. Pam Tyler, LSU historian Charles Shindo, Southeastern Louisiana A second TAH three- University historian Howard Nichols, and UNO historian Raphael year grant for $1 million was Cassimere. awarded to LEH in “The purpose of this project,” said LEH director Michael Sartisky, partnership with the Caddo “is to greatly improve student achievement in American history and to Parish Public Schools and promote in students a deeper understanding and appreciation for LSU/Shreveport in October 2005 American history, the origins of American democracy, civic rights and for a parallel series of teacher institutes and in-service training to begin in the summer of 2006.

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES G RANTS LEH Special Grants

K EY I NGREDIENTS America by Food HOST SITES Natchitoches Key Ingredients: America in everyday meals and celebrations. Our recipes, Baldwin Friends of the St. Mary by Food, the third menus, ceremonies and etiquette are directly Old Natchitoches Parish Library exhibition in a series shaped by our country’s rich immigrant Courthouse experience, the history and innovations of food Eunice Museum, Inc. made possible by a preparation technology, and the ever-changing City of Eunice partnership between the New Roads availability of key ingredients. Larose Julien Poydras Louisiana Endowment Besides covering all exhibition costs ($9,000) Bayou Civic Museum and for the Humanities and Arts Council and providing in total $36,000 in grants for Club, Inc. the Smithsonian Ingredients ancillary exhibits and public programs to the six Jena KEY Institution’s Museum Jena Cultural on Main Street Center Program, goes to Museum on Main Street underserved rural Key Ingredients: America by Food host sites, the LEH provided continuous Louisiana, beginning 05-080-086 OG 05-080-038 technical assistance to the sponsoring in June 2006. Key Ingredients explores the OG 05-080-035 OG 05-080-039 organizations on exhibition and program connections between Americans and the foods OG 05-080-036 OG 05-080-040 development, fundraising, publicity and they produce, prepare, preserve and present at the OG 05-080-037 promotion, collaboration, and budget planning, 11 table — a provocative and thoughtful look at the all of which will benefit these organizations long historical, regional and social traditions that merge $11,000 after the Smithsonian exhibit has left town.

S OUTHERN H UMANITIES M EDIA F UND

Louisiana history and culture, 2005 Southern Humanities disbursing $1.8 million in grant FOUNDED IN1991, THESOUTHERN applicants whose projects Media Fund funds. In 2005, the Fund HUMANITIESM EDIAFUND is a collaboration concentrate on broader Southern 05-080-084 / $15,000 awarded $90,000 to provide of 10 state humanities councils in the South. The topics are referred to the Southern Virginia Foundation production support for three Fund supports film, video and audio productions Humanities Media Fund. for the Humanities regional media projects: American that explore the history and culture of the Creole: Shades of Rhythm Since its inception, the Andrew Wyndham American South. The LEH has contributed a total ($30,000), Southern Patriot Southern Humanities Media of $80,000 to the Fund since joining in 2002. ($30,000) and Greensboro: A Study in Truth and Fund has helped to underwrite 51 outstanding Because the LEH reserves its Documentary Film Justice ($30,000). films, television programs and radio projects by and Radio Grants for projects pertaining to

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT G RANTS LEH Special Grants

O UR T OWN H UMANIST of the Y EAR

COMMUNITY LIFE IS A HALLMARK OF CARL BRASSEAUX, Ph.D. Distinguished AMERICA. The very notion of how we define Professor of History at the University of Louisiana- community harkens back to the small town or rural Lafayette; international scholar and “preeminent settlement model. Unfortunately, many of expert” on French Louisiana history, the Acadian Louisiana’s communities have changed or are in Diaspora and colonial Louisiana. danger of becoming extinct. Consequently, the LEH instituted Our Town Community History 2005 Humanist of the Year Grants to document the histories of Louisiana’s 0G 05-080-033 / $1,000 communities before they are lost forever. Culminating in books, exhibits, websites and/or walking/driving tours, Our Town grants encourage the development of comprehensive local history projects. Community histories are an important way to get members of the public involved in 12 humanities projects that strengthen community pride and create a sense of commonality. S TATE P OET L AUREATE Algiers: The Untold Story of a New Orleans Treasure BRENDAMARIEOSBEY, New Orleans writer 05-080-052 / $11,300.00 and poet, Louisiana’s first peer-selected poet Amistad Research Center laureate. Called “the voice of the Creole in print,” Allyson Ward Neal Osbey is author of Ceremony for Minneconjoux: Poems; In These Houses; Desperate 100 Years – 100 Photographs: Circumstances, Dangerous Women; and All Saints: Life Along the Tracks New and Selected Poems for which she received to Our Community the American Book Award in 1998. 05-080-071 / $13,037.00 Washington Area Museum Foundation 2005-06 State Poet Laureate Vicki Knight 0G 05-080-034 / $1,000

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES LEH Grants G RANTSgrants awarded in 2005 included Documentary P UBLIC The Historic New Film and Radio Orleans Collection H UMANITIES projects as well as John Lawrence G RANTS Louisiana Publishing First exhibition in Initiative grants. Louisiana examining the The LEH supports influence of the French cultural efforts colony of St. Domingue on colonial Louisiana and throughout the state by ______its early history as part of awarding grants to local the . ■ THE HISTORY OF cultural organizations ______BLACK EDUCATION IN and institutions. PLANTATIONCOUNTRY ■ BLUE WINDS DANCING: These awards support 05-080-051 / $13,900 large- and small-scale River Road African THE WHITECLOUD COLLECTION OFNATIVE humanities public American Museum Kathe Hambrick AMERICANART programs from Exhibit on the history 05-080-058 / $20,200 university-sponsored of African American New Orleans Museum events to those education in rural of Art Paul Tarver sponsored by communities along the Mississippi River, housed Catalogue and museums, libraries, in an original Rosenwald exhibition of over 300 cultural centers and School built for that objects from nearly 30 historical societies. purpose. indigenous Native 13 American cultures. Public Humanities ______grants bridge the gap ■ 2005 LOUISIANA between academia and ■ THE SAGA BOOK FESTIVAL the community, giving OF MARIE ROSALIE 05-080-056 / $18,208 Louisiana residents Louisiana Library 05-080-059 / $10,330 access to top university Foundation Acadian Memorial Rod Mills Foundation, Inc. faculty and resources. Shirley LeBlanc Fourth annual festival Specific formats for Exhibition and featured regionally and these projects include, nationally recognized catalogue of paintings by but are not limited to, poets, writers and Mary Ann Pecot de Boisblanc, chronicling the public forums such as storytellers in writing workshops, exhibits and story of her Acadian conferences and demonstrations. ancestor, Marie Rosalie workshops, interpretive Prejean Pecot. ______exhibits, and film and ______

music lecture series. ■ COLONIALSAINT ■ UNCLE EARL: Public Humanities DOMINGUE: A LOUISIANA MASTER OF THE“STUMP” HERITAGESTORY 05-080-060 / $6,650 05-080-057 / $20,660

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT Greater Winn Parish the new Louisiana State Development Corp. Museum in Baton Rouge. Carolyn R. Phillips ______Exhibit on Earl K. Long ■ LOUISIANAFOLKLIFE LEH funds incorporates an interactive FESTIVAL2005 supported The audio element of Long’s 05-080-064 / $15,574 campaign speeches, in City of Monroe War That addition to interpretive Michael Luster Changed the panels on his life and The 11th annual World, a political career. festival focused on the ______traditions and conference on the contributions of Louisiana 60th anniversary ■ A YEAR OF LIVING folklife through music, of the conclusion ARTISTS ANDTRADITIONS narratives, crafts and foodways. of World War II. 05-080-061 / $13,160 Meadows Museum of Art ______at Centenary College Diane G. Dufilho ■ NORTHWEST Exhibit and discussion LOUISIANABLACK series focused on the ARTS FESTIVAL works of artists Barbara 05-080-065 / $7,000 Thomas and Jacob Achievement Through Lawrence, ceramicist Art, Inc. Chris Kelly, and others. William R. Scott ______Festival focused on 14 the contributions of ■ LOUISIANA to CROSSROADS: SEASON 6 Louisiana art and culture. 05-080-062 / $15,530 ______Acadiana Arts Council Todd Mouton ■ FESTIVAL OFFAITH Sixth annual six- AND THEARTS month, 12-event 05-080-068 / $6,500 informance series, also Emmanuel Baptist Church broadcast on KRVS radio Johnnye Jo Lott and internet media. Keynote speaker and ______author Clyde Edgerton lectured on the ■ MUSIC AT THEMINT/ relationship between his MUSIC AT THEMALL fiction and his faith. 05-080-063 / $6,850 ______Louisiana Museum Foundation ■ THE WAR THAT Gabriela Hernandez CHANGEDTHE WORLD The 11th series of 05-080-069 / $19,000 informances, broadcast on The National D-Day WRBH and WWOZ, and Museum first informance series at Gordon H. Mueller

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES Funding supported thisDOCUMENTARY conference marking the 60th anniversary of FtheILM end of &WorldR ADIO War II. G RANTS DOCUMENTARY F ILM & R ADIO G RANTS

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 viewer. In addition, our 15 efforts have made the LEH the largest state supporter of documentary film and radio projects for more than 20 years. Films funded by the LEH are made available through the Louisiana State Library Audiovisual Resource Center. All films published in the LEH Media Catalog are available to any Louisiana resident with a library card. ______

■ AMERICANCREOLE: SHADES OFRHYTHM 05-080-072 / $18,150 An LEH-funded exhibit chronicled the saga of Marie Rosalie Prejean Pecot and her Acadian ancestors’ journey to Louisiana. It was also Foundation for the subject of an article in Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine.

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■ BLACK, WHITE, AND CATHOLIC: NEW ORLEANS INTERRACIALISM, 1947-1956 05-080-044 / $1,200 Vanderbilt University Press R. Bentley Anderson, S.J. Book examines the interaction of black and white New Orleans Catholics to end racial segregation in the post- World War II era. ______

■ NEW ORLEANS 1867: PHOTOGRAPHS BY THEODORELILIENTHAL 05-080-048 / $4,000 Merrell Publishers, Ltd. Gary Van Zante Interpretive book featuring 126 duotones 16 reproducing the Lilienthal portfolio of Like That,” and New Orleans as exhibited Excellence in Louisiana Ten, five-minute radio landscape, people, towns ■ PIETY ANDDESIRE: “SomethingOUISIANA You Got.” at the Paris Exposition of Public Broadcasting segments about the L and cities, triumphs and THE STORY OF THE tragedies, music and 1867. Glen Pitre people, culture, and ______P UBLISHING BLACK PANTHERS IN history of the Bayou literature, and ______Documentary NITIATIVE NEW ORLEANS I architectural monuments exploring the complex Lafourche region. 05-080-039 / $4,000 G RANTS to its living and dead. web of ethnic, racial, and ______Orissa Arend ■ CELEBRATING Thanks in part to these cultural identities that Book on New Orleans FREEDOM: THE ART grants, writers, influence contemporary ■ as it began to move away OF WILLIE BIRCH CHRIS KENNER LOUISIANA photographers and attitudes toward Creoles from its long-standing 05-080-049 / $4,000 RADIO PROJECT publishers have produced of Color. P UBLISHING political stance of white Contemporary Arts OG 05-080-053 / $2,500 for the public many supremacy through a ______Center for Gulf South I NITIATIVE outstanding publications confrontation that ▼ ▼ ▼ History and Culture G RANTS that explore Louisiana’s unexpectedly escaped ■ BAYOU HERITAGE David Kunian contribution to the bloodshed and MINUTES: BAYOU Radio documentary humanities in literature, right: imprisonment, but which LAFOURCHEORAL about the late New The LEH established its history, languages, music, Reminiscing began a dialogue on HISTORY RADIO PROJECT Orleans musician Chris Louisiana Publishing cultural anthropology and issues of poverty, About the 05-080-082 / $6,000 Kenner, singer and Initiative grants to help folklife. oppression, racism and Sixties, Lafourche Parish songwriter of hits “Sick writers and photographers ______the use of force that still Public Library and Tired,” “Land of tell the endless stories of by Willie Birch, resonate today. Lynn Hadley 1,000 Dances,” “I Like It Louisiana’s history, 1998.

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ANNUAL 2005 REPORT Center at Lafayette OG 05-080-017 / $2,500 New Orleans Jazz music featuring Bill documenting the DavidO UTREACHS. Rubin Christine DeVine Louisiana State Centennial Celebration Summers, Ned Sublette, evolution of Morgan City MonographG RANTS on Program and public University and A&M Jason Patterson Tomas Montoya, Arturo and St. Mary Parish from nationally recognized talks about this British College Traveling exhibit on O’Farril and Michael an agricultural and artist Willie Birch Romantic-era comedy by Pamela P. Rabalais the history of New Orleans’ Skinkus. fishing community to one that thrived on oil examines his career as it Fanny Burney. Exhibition illustrating brass band culture. ______exploration and has been shaped by life in ______the history and uses of ______production. New Orleans and growing commodity bags in the ■ HISTORICAL up in the segregated ■ LOVE ARM’D: APHRA mid-20th century by ■ CUBA CONNECTIONS: SNAPSHOTS OF South. women, particularly in BEHN ANDHER PEN PUBLIC LECTURESERIES MORGAN CITY ■ ON THE GRITTY SIDE: rural areas. OG 05-080-014 / $2,500 OG 05-080-020 / $2,500 AND LOUISIANA DUBLIN’S WORKING OUTREACH Louisiana State CubaNola Collective OG 05-080-024 / $2,384 CLASS IRISH FROM University at Shreveport ■ BRASS BANDS OFNEW Ariana Hall Artist Guild LITERATURE TOFILM G RANTS Diane E. Boyd ORLEANS TOURING Public lecture series Unlimited, Inc. OG 05-080-026 / $1,540 Chautauqua on writer, EXHIBIT on the interconnections of Lee LeBlanc Delta FilmWorks spy and iconoclast Aphra OG 05-080-019 / $2,500 Cuban and New Orleans Film festival Betty J. Kauffman The Louisiana Behn as part of the Endowment for the annual “Celebration of Humanities’ Outreach Women” week by the Grants encourage Shreveport YWCA. community groups ______throughout the state to develop humanities projects that celebrate ■ ACADIANASENIOR and preserve local culture COMMUNITYHISTORY and heritage, as well as PROJECT 18 introduce people to new OG 05-080-016 / $1,000 ones. Designed to fund Senior Service America, programs of three months Inc. or less in duration, these Laura Chenven grants of up to $2,500 Planning grant to train provide for a wide range and engage seniors in the of interests and needs in a collection and preservation state of such great of local Acadian culture. diversity. In 2005, ______Outreach Grants made a significant impact on the ■ FEED SACK FASHIONS cultural life of Louisiana’s IN LOUISIANA residents in both urban and rural areas. ▼ ▼ ▼ ______right: New Orleans’

■ THE WITLINGS: brass band culture EXPLANATORYPROGRAM, hit the road in a PRE-PLAY PUBLIC traveling exhibit TALKS, AND PUBLIC providing a LECTURE OG 05-080-013 / $2,500 historical view. University of Louisiana

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENTfor the HUMANITIES Exhibition and “Great Mound” at programs on the work of Troyville displayed in French photographer Jonesville, Monroe and Jacques Henri Lartigue. Marksville. ______■ ARTS ANDLITERATURE: ■ SPEAKERS ON CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE TECHE THE CREOLE PEOPLE OG 05-080-046 / $1,230 OG 05-080-042 / $1,075 Young-Sanders Center Louisiana Creole Roger Busbice Research Association, Inc. Lecture series on the Armand Devezin significance of Louisiana Three-day conference and the Bayou Teche on the contributions of region to the nation’s Creoles to art, literature, history during the Civil architecture and music. War. ______

■ LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: ■ LOUISIANAMUSEUMS: JEWISH LITERATURE THE NEXT GENERATION OG 05-080-043 / $2,500 SPEAKERS FOR THE University of Louisiana LOUISIANAASSOCIATION at Lafayette OF MUSEUMSANNUAL Jean S. Kiesel CONFERENCE Reading and discussion OG 05-080-047 / $2,000 series exploring themes in Louisiana Association of Jewish literature. Museums 19 ______K. Diane Losavio Douglas Brinkley and ■ A CITY ON THEMOVE Jack Nokes were keynote OG 05-080-044 / $1,440 speakers at LAM’s annual Jim Bowie makes an annual appearance at a festival Vidalia named for him, where there is also a re-enactment of the Vidalia Chamber conference. infamous “Sandbar Duel,” that wounded him, killed others and gave birth to the legend of the Bowie Knife. of Commerce ______Sam Jones ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Annual Jim Bowie ■ AILLET HOUSE Film festival based on festival, this year Festival panel of Louisiana blues Festival Chautauqua on EXHIBITSPLANNING the novels of Irish writer highlighting the works of discussions. musician Huddie the famous scoundrel. MEETINGS Roddy Doyle’s playwright Tennessee ______Lebetter. ______OG 05-080-048 / $1,000 “Barrytown Trilogy.” Williams. ______West Baton Rouge ______■ THE LIFE ANDLEGACY ■ THE 1931 TROYVILLE Museum OF LEADBELLYEXHIBIT ■ JACQUES HENRI “GREAT MOUND” Caroline Kennedy ■ A TENNESSEE ■ SAINTS ANDSINNERS OG 05-080-030 / $2,500 LARTIGUE: A BOY, A EXCAVATIONSREVISITED Developed an WILLIAMSFILM LITERARYFESTIVAL New Orleans Jazz CAMERA, AN ERA OG 05-080-045 / $2,500 interpretive program on FESTIVAL: PART II OG 05-080-028 / $1,756 and Heritage Festival OG 05-080-041 / $2,500 Catahoula Parish Library the social history of the OG 05-080-027 / $2,425 NO/AIDS Task Force and Foundation Louisiana Art and Science Joe Saunders families who occupied the Ascension Parish Library Paul Willis Don Marshall Museum Exhibit and lectures c. 1830 house. John R. May Third annual Saints Exhibit on the life, Elizabeth Chubbuck on the 1931 Winslow ______Seventh annual film and Sinners Literary career and cultural impact Weinstein Walker excavations of the

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT Orleans Literary Festival experience and Louisiana Paul J. Willis folklore. Fourth annual ______discussion series, this year featuring Andrew Fox, ■ AFRICAN AMERICAN Helen Scully, John Barry POETRY INANTEBELLUM and Rick Bragg. SOCIETY ______OG 05-080-062 / $2,000 ■ FREEMAN& CUSTIS Southern University and RED RIVER EXPEDITION A&M College OF 1806: TWO HUNDRED Leona Burrell YEARS LATER Louisiana State Poet OG 05-080-057 / $2,500 Laureate, Brenda Marie Louisiana State Osbey, addressed University at Shreveport audiences on “African Laura McLemore American Poetry in Conference on the Antebellum Society.” expedition and its impact ______on Louisiana history and culture. ■ CREATING FROMREAL ______LIFE: CONVERSATIONS WITH ELLEN GILCHRIST ■ ANGOLA ARCHAEOLOGY: OG 05-080-064 / $2,500 70 YEARS OFLEGEND, Terrebonne Parish SCIENCE ANDREALITY Library 20 OG 05-080-059 / $2,500 Jackie Jackson Louisiana State Jubilee Arts and Penitentiary Museum Humanities Festival Foundation presented author Ellen Stephanie Perrault Gilchrist for its Jubilee The LEH-funded Fanfare Arts and Humanities Festival at Southeastern Louisiana University featured Ken Carter, Symposium highlights Jambalaya Writers’ the archaeological Conference. who gained national fame after a feature film depicted him when he was head basketball coach at Richmond High investigations conducted ______School in Richmond, California. Carter locked out his undefeated varsity basketball team in order to push them to at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. improve academically. Samuel L. Jackson portrayed the coach in the film. ■ MCNEESE BANNERS ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ______LECTURESERIES ■ COACH KEN CARTER Alexandria. Milton Batiste and OG 05-080-067 / $2,500 OG 05-080-049 / $1,600 ■ PLANNINGGRANT FOR ______Anthony Lacen, ■ LOUISIANA McNeese Foundation Southeastern Louisiana ORAL HISTORY PROJECT incorporated onto the FOLKLORE: RED BEANS Mary Richardson Web site of the New University ON CIVIL RIGHTS ■ BRASS BAND AND RICELY YOURS A three-part lecture on Orleans Jazz Collection of Donna Gay Anderson OG 05-080-050 / $970 BIOGRAPHIES OG 05-080-061 / $2,500 the problems of Africa as the Louisiana State “Average is Just Not Louisiana State OG 05-080-052 / $1,297 DeBose National Piano part of the annual Museum. Good Enough” was University at Alexandria G.H.B. Jazz Foundation Competition Foundation, Banners Arts and Coach Ken Carter’s Jules Tate in New Orleans ______Inc. Humanities Series. lecture at the Fanfare Planning sessions to Michael John Burns ■ COFFEE & Cynthia Levy Arts and Humanities develop a Civil Rights Radio biographies of CONVERSATION Mona Lisa Saloy read Festival. Movement online oral New Orleans brass band OG 05-080-055 / $2,500 and discussed poems on ______history project in greats Harold Dejan, Tennesee Williams/New the urban New Orleans

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A MERICAN R OUTES T ENNESSEE W ILLIAMS F ESTIVAL

THE YEAR 2006 MARKED THE 20th ANNIVERSARY of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. This annual literary festival brings top writers to New Orleans and provides quality programming for the general public. The festival contributes to the city’s cultural life with five days of master classes, 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 21 city and reaches the largest audience of any local literary AMERICANROUTES IS A ONE-HOUR RADIO PROGRAM 2006 Tennessee Williams/ event. Area residents are featuring Louisiana and nationally known musicians. These artists New Orleans Literary Festival reached by cable access channels represent a wide range of popular music: jazz, blues, Cajun, Latin, soul, 05-080-085 / $25,000 where videotapes of all panels Zydeco, western swing, pop and gospel. The program format includes Paul Willis are broadcast. Besides reaching conversational interviews with the hottest artists on the contemporary thousands of readers, the festival is one of the nation’s Top 10 Literary and traditional music scene as well as samples of their latest creations. Events. The festival also sends writers to the city’s public high schools Reaching 447 stations in 236 radio markets including XM Satellite and contributes books to their libraries. Radio, these stations ranged from classical formats to those featuring The Festival partnered with the Louisiana Book Festival on panel news. The estimated weekly sessions on urban planning and rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf American Routes national audience is more than Coast after the hurricanes, as well as the future of New Orleans art and 05-080-083 / $79,540 500,000 listeners. culture. The 2005 festival participants included Dorothy Allison, Michael Nick Spitzer Chabon, Nora Roberts, Thomas Oliphant, Rick Bragg, Eric Maisel and Kent Haruf. LEH Humanities Awards

ON MAY 10, 2005, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities honored Louisianians who made outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of the humanities. The 2005 Humanist of the Year was Carl Brasseaux, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Louisiana- Lafayette and an international scholar and “preeminent expert” on French Louisiana history, the Acadian Diaspora and colonial Louisiana. He has authored, edited and co-edited over 30 volumes, including books that are seminal research tools for anyone interested in Louisiana history and the Acadian-French experience in North America. In addition, he is the Director of ULL’s Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism, Director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and editor of Louisiana History, the Louisiana Historical Association’s official journal. The Chair’s Award for Institutional Support was presented to Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, for the its contributions to the store of knowledge about Louisiana’s history, literature and culture. The Award for Lifetime Achievement went to Thomas Jaques. As the State Librarian for many years, Jaques was a major advocate for 22 2005 LEH Humanities Award winners were, seated from left, Neari Francois Warner, Linda humanities programming in libraries throughout the state, including LeBlanc, Deborah Luster, Martha Hodnett, ; standing, Carl Brasseaux, Helen Clare Taylor, LEH’s Readings in Louisiana Culture and PRIME TIME programs. The highly successful Louisiana Book Festival, which began in 2002, has Cheryl Ware, Sharlene Algaier, MaryKatherine Callaway, and Jack Bedell. Not pictured is been one of his most successful contributions to the literary life of retired State Librarian Thomas Jaques, Award for Lifetime Achievement. Louisiana. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Special Humanities Awards were presented to Jack Bedell, who teachers literature and creative writing at Southeastern Louisiana director of the master of liberal arts program at LSU-Shreveport, for her University in Hammond, for his service as a scholar and discussion dedicated participation in numerous humanities programs associated with leader in 15 PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME programs at the LEH; Cheryl Ware, Ph.D., professor of English at McNeese State libraries, schools and churches in southeast Louisiana; Martha Hodnett, University in Lake Charles, where she effectively led 17 LEH RELIC youth services librarian for the Lafourche Parish Public Library, who programs. helped make Prime Time programs a success in Lafourche Parish; Linda Deborah Luster of Monroe received the Humanities Book of the Year LeBlanc, parent involvement coordinator for the Jefferson Davis Parish Award for her singular work One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. School System, for her efforts in coordinating almost a dozen Prime Time The Humanities Teacher of the Year Award (Elementary School) was programs since 2000; Helen Clare Taylor, Ph.D., professor of English and presented to Sharlene Algaier, Mandeville, La., who taught third grade at Woodlake Elementary School in Mandeville, La., where she was named the school’s Teacher of the Year for 2004.

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■ Suzan G. Allen ■ Francis A. DeCaro, Ph.D. ■ Homer L. Hitt, Ph.D. ■ Jack McCarthy ■ Sanna Randolph ■ Raleigh A. Suarez, Ph.D. Lafayette Baton Rouge New Orleans Baton Rouge Alexandria Lake Charles ■ Vaughan Baker, Ph.D. ■ Hon. James L. Dennis ■ Sen. William Jefferson ■ Kathleen Heim McCook, ■ Andrew Reck, Ph.D. ■ Carole R. Taylor, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans New Orleans Ph.D. New Orleans New Orleans ■ A. David Barry, Ph.D. ■ William M. Detweiler, J.D. ■ Ben D. Johnson Baton Rouge ■ Jean Reeves ■ Cecil Taylor, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans Natchitoches ■ Alden J. McDonald New Orleans Baton Rouge ■ Melinda Bartley, Ph.D. ■ Dardanella Ennis, Ph.D. ■ Jerah W. Johnson, Ph.D. New Orleans ■ Doris Reggie ■ Maxine Taylor, Ph.D. New Orleans Grambling New Orleans ■ Doris McWilliams Crowley Natchitoches ■ Reginald Bess, Ph.D. ■ Glenda Bryan Erwin ■ Theodore R. Kauss, Ph.D. Shreveport ■ Miles Richardson, Ph.D. ■ Phyllis Taylor Langston Shreveport Shreveport ■ David E. Middleton, Ph.D. Baton Rouge New Orleans ■ Warren M. Billings, Ph.D. ■ Neil T. Erwin, J.D. ■ Peggy Kinsey Thibodaux ■ Mrs. Rupert Richardson ■ Sibal S. Taylor New Orleans Shreveport Shreveport ■ Saul Mintz Baton Rouge Baton Rouge ■ Elizabeth Bingham ■ Randall Feldman ■ Glenna Kramer Monroe ■ Ronald Robert ■ Hon. Gene Thibodeaux Baton Rouge New Orleans Franklin ■ James Montgomery New Orleans Lake Charles ■ Rabbi Murray Blackman ■ Anne Fitzgerald ■ James H. Lake, Ph.D. Shreveport ■ Ron Roberts, Ph.D. ■ Morris Taft Thomas New Orleans Alexandria Shreveport ■ Sybil Morial DeRidder Alexandria ■ Peggy Brian ■ Daniel M. Fogel, Ph.D. ■ Beverly D. Latimer New Orleans ■ Sidney Romero, Ph.D. ■ Bailey Thompson Alexandria Baton Rouge Lafayette ■ Stephen A. Moses Hammond Shreveport ■ Mark T. Carleton, Ph.D. ■ Fred A. Frey ■ Frances L. Lawrence, Ph.D. New Orleans ■ Thomas Ruffin ■ Stan Tiner Baton Rouge Baton Rouge New Orleans ■ G. Leon Netterville, Ph.D. Shreveport Shreveport ■ Thomas Chambers, ■ Anthony J. Gagliano, Ph.D. ■ Seraphia D. Leyda, Ph.D. Baton Rouge ■ Jerome J. Salomone, Ph.D. ■ Rev. David Trickett C.S.C., Ph.D. New Orleans New Orleans ■ Paul T. Nolan, Ph.D. Hammond New Orleans New Orleans ■ Antoine Garibaldi, Ph.D. ■ Ann Lowrey Lafayette ■ Edward E. Samaha, Ph.D. ■ Jane Ann Tudor 23 ■ Richard Chardkoff, Ph.D. New Orleans Alexandria ■ Hope Norman Ruston Pineville Monroe ■ Aline M. Garrett, Ph.D. ■ Walter M. Lowery, Ph.D. Alexandria ■ William R. Savage, Ph.D. ■ Sue Turner ■ Millie M. Charles Lafayette Shreveport ■ John M. Norris, Ph.D. New Orleans Baton Rouge New Orleans ■ Tony Gelderman, J.D. ■ Fr. George F. Lundy, Lake Charles ■ Darwin H. Shrell, Ph.D. ■ Charles Vincent, Ph.D. ■ Joy Clemons, J.D. New Orleans Ph.D., S.J. ■ James L. Olney, Ph.D. Baton Rouge Baton Rouge Baton Rouge ■ Caroline Gilliland New Orleans Baton Rouge ■ Msgr. Alexander O. Sigur ■ Neari F. Warner, Ph.D. ■ Henry Cobb, Ph.D. Alexandria ■ Louis J. Lupin, J.D. ■ Lise Pederson, Ph.D. Lafayette Grambling Baton Rouge ■ Sylvia Klumok Goodman New Orleans Lake Charles ■ Lanier Simmons ■ Robert C. Whitemore, Ph.D. ■ Jeff Cowart Shreveport ■ Michael H. Madison ■ Huel D. Perkins, Ph.D. Avery Island New Orleans Leesburg ■ Morgan J. Goudeau III, J.D. Shreveport Baton Rouge ■ Hon. Anne L. Simon ■ Nathaniel Wing, Ph.D. ■ Hon. James J. Cox Opelousas ■ Yale Mandel, Ph.D. ■ Emma Bradford Perry, Ed.S. New Iberia Baton Rouge Lake Charles ■ Alfred G. Guillaume, Ph.D. Shreveport Baton Rouge ■ Lorraine Slacks ■ Everett Williams, Ph.D. ■ Michael Craft New Orleans ■ Vincent Marino, Ph.D. ■ Sheela Plater Monroe New Orleans Shreveport ■ Edward Haas, Ph.D. Lafayette Thibodaux ■ Fraser Snowden, Ph.D. ■ Alma Young, Ph.D. ■ Betty Lee Crain New Orleans ■ Judy P. Martinez, J.D. ■ Jessie J. Poesch, Ph.D. Natchitoches New Orleans Monroe ■ Elton C. Harrison, Ph.D. Metairie New Orleans ■ Robert C. Snyder ■ Rabbi Richard Zionts ■ Richard E. D’Aquin New Orleans ■ Peter Mayer ■ Nick Pollacia Jr. Ruston Shreveport Lafayette ■ Danella P. Hero New Orleans Leesville ■ Thilo Steinschulte ■ Moselle Dearbone, Ph.D. Belle Chasse ■ Mary G. McBride, Ph.D. ■ Peggy Prenshaw, Ph.D. Alexandria Alexandria ■ Otis A. Herbert, Jr., Ph.D. Shreveport Baton Rouge ■ George A. Stokes, Ph.D. Lafayette Natchitoches

ANNUAL 2005 REPORT Donors ■ Randy and Denise Sassone ■ Thomas & Celia Foard ■ Marjorie Morrison $ 35$ 35 – $ $99 99 ■ Virginia Shehee ■ Dr. & Mrs. James Foster ■ Sen. Willie Mount LEH ■ ■ ■ ■ Marilyn Sonnier Rosemarie Fowler Carolyn Nelson Dr. Stephen Abshire $ 5,000 plus ■ A.R. Carmody, Jr. ■ John Southerland ■ Dr. John Francis ■ Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Nesbitt ■ Randy Akers $ 5,000 plus ■ Dr. & Mrs. Quentin Falgoust ■ Amanda Taylor ■ Ernest & Dianne Gaines ■ Charlotte Norman ■ Robin Albert ■ Anonymous ■ Joshua Force ■ Dr. Charles Vincent ■ Antoine & Carol Garibaldi ■ Roger Ogden ■ Sharlene Algaier ■ The Booth-Bricker Fund ■ Bob & Ruth Force ■ Bill & Christie Weeks ■ Irby and Marcia Gaudet ■ Eric Overmyer ■ Beth Anders ■ Mike Boyle and ■ Nancy Guidry ■ Sen. Butch Gautreaux ■ Ellen & John Pecoul ■ Donna Gay Anderson Darnell Bludworth ■ Paulette & Keith Hardie $ 100$ 100 – $ $ 249 249 ■ Georgia Gulf Corporation ■ Darlene Pelletier ■ Lois Anderson ■ William Christovich ■ Gregory Holt ■ Charles Gerard, Jr. ■ Mr. & Mrs. F.J. Peterson ■ Muriel Arceneaux ■ David Eppler ■ Eugenie Huger ■ Mel Altschul ■ George Gerhold ■ Sheela & David Plater ■ Orissa Arend ■ The Gumbo Foundation ■ Dr. Dana Kress ■ Dr. & Mrs. Barry Ancelet ■ Karin & Larry Giger ■ Alli Pleasonton ■ Arts Council of Central ■ Hibernia National Bank ■ Dr. Richard Levine ■ Lois Anderson ■ Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Green ■ Dr. Jessie Poesch Louisiana ■ Mr. & Mrs. Norman Kinsey ■ Mark Manguno ■ Philip Andrepont ■ Dr. Randolph Green ■ Robert Power ■ Ascension Parish Library ■ Mr. & Mrs. Randy Ewing ■ Mrs. Edward McGuire ■ Dr. Ray Authement ■ Anne Guidry ■ Dr. Helaine Razovsky ■ Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ashworth ■ M. 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