Friends of the Cabildo NewsVolume 179, October–November 2016 GALLIVANT YOUR WAY TO SPIRITED STORIES Join us October 22 and 23 for the 30th Annual Ghostly Gallivant: Living History Courtyard Tours. Guests will go on a thrilling adventure to explore some of the French Quarter’s most hidden courtyards. Ghosts, such as Etienne de Bore, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Micaela Pontalba, Chep Morrison and Josie Arlington, will regale you with stories of the Crescent City’s colorful and illustrious history. For more details, see page 2. friendsofthecabildo.org Events Second Thursday Lecture Series Wednesday, November 16 | 10 a.m. Ghostly Gallivant: Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave. Irish Channel Tour Living History Courtyard Tours 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Saturday, November 19 | 10 a.m. October 22–23, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Free and open to the public. 1850 House Museum Shop Lower Garden District Tour $20 Members / $25 Non-Members Monday, October 10 | 10 a.m. Friday, November 25 | 10 a.m. Explore Louisiana’s colorful past — meet ghosts of Old New Orleans in some of the Treme History Tour French Quarter’s most charming hidden Sunday, October 9 | 10 a.m. courtyards. Saturday, November 26 | 10 a.m. For more information or to purchase tickets Battle of New Orleans Tour online, visit friendsofthecabildo.org or call Saturday, November 12 | 10:30 a.m. 504.523.3939. Tours depart every half-hour. 1850 House Book 3rd Annual Symposium Thursday, October 13 Signing Outside the Law: Piracy & the Illicit Laura D. Kelley, Ph.D. 523 St. Ann St. Slave Trade in the Gulf South Sanctuary in the Swamps: Survival by October 22, 2-4 p.m. Strategic Migration, Native American Author: Carolyn Opening Reception & Keynote: Communities in Southern Louisiana Morrow Long December 9, 6:30–9 p.m. | Cabildo ve Keynote speaker: Unbeknownst to many in the New “Famille V Paris neé William C. Davis | Virginia Tech Orleans metropolitan area, an hour and Laveau: The Tomb a half outside of the city, hidden in lower of Marie Laveau in St Lectures: Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, there Louis Cemetery No. 1” December 10, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. | Old U.S. Mint exist an interrelated network of small, Presenters: still French-speaking Native American October 23, 2-4 p.m. Erin Greenwald | HNOC communities. Historian Laura D. Kelley Author: Mary LaCoste David Head | Spring Hill College will present a fascinating talk on how and “Death Embraced: Kevin Harrell | HNOC why these Tribes came to live in these New Orleans Tombs Dr. Robert Paquette | Hamilton College remote bayous and will explore what may and Burial Customs” Historians have discovered large amounts happen to these communities in this era FOC Concert of climate change, coastal erosion, and of information regarding the legal slave rising sea levels. Series trade and New Orleans as the most Old U.S. Mint, important slave trading market in the Thursday, November 10 400 Esplanade Ave. United States during the Antebellum Speaker and topic to be announced 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. period. However, the illicit slave trade supported by privateers, pirates and For more information, contact November 4: Deacon John businessmen is less understood. Cody Scallions at [email protected] November 18: Grayson Capps or 504-568-2123. January 20: Kenny Neal Despite the banning of importing slaves March 10: Zachary Richard Cultural & Neighborhood by the federal government in 1808, a huge market for slaves existed in Louisiana and Walking Tours Created in 2013, the Friends of the Cabildo Concert Series has brought these networks provided access to cheaper See pages 6–7 for details. together some of the best musicians slaves and without documentation. Privateer Jean Lafitte and Jim Bowie are New Orleans Music History Tour from New Orleans and Louisiana to just two of the most well-known names Saturday, October 22 | 9 a.m. perform and archive their music for associated with this trade network. Saturday, November 26 | 9 a.m. the Louisiana State Museum’s Music Collection. Join us for a unique musical This symposium will explore this illicit Creole Neighborhoods Tour experience at the intimate 150-seat, slaved trade and some of the important Wednesday, October 19 | 10 a.m. state of the art Old U.S. Mint 3rd Floor figures of this period in American Sunday, October 30 | 10:30 a.m. Performance Hall. Page 2 friendsofthecabildo.org Events History. The importance of tour are the 1850 House Museum, Louisiana and the Gulf South to Louisiana State Museum’s Pontalba the Atlantic Slave Trade will also apartment, Madame John’s Legacy, be explored as well. the Gallier House, Beauregard- Keyes House, and the Spring Fiesta To purchase tickets, visit House. Your Creole Christmas tour friendsofthecabildo.org or contact experience includes an entertaining 504.523.3939. Early-bird tickets: $75 presentation of Reveillon traditions Members / $90 Non-Members. Tickets and their Creole origins at the include both events. Reservations Spring Fiesta House as well as required, tickets are limited. an array of delicious holiday Creole Christmas Tours refreshments. December 27–29, 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. Tours begin at the 1850 House 1850 House Museum Shop Museum Shop located at 523 St. $20 Members / $25 Non-members Ann Street, on festive Jackson Square. Louisiana archive Museum State Celebrate the holidays with the Friends of the Cabildo! Join us for a Advance tickets available at self-guided tour of six of the French friendsofthecabildo.org or 504-523- Quarter’s most cherished properties 3939. Day-of tickets available at the adorned in traditional Creole 1850 House Museum Shop. Final Christmas finery. Featured on the tours depart at 3 p.m. Music Edition: Sidney Bechet Wednesday, October 19 | 6 & 7 p.m. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave. $15 Members, $20 General Admission Some of the greatest musicians of all time can immediately be recognized by just a few notes. But few musicians have displayed this talent quite like New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet. A throbbing vibrato and passionate rhythmic attack combined to create Bechet’s signature sound. The cadence allowed him to outshine nearly every other musician on the bandstand. A sound so big and full of life, its only match was the personality of its creator. If the soul of a man ever revealed itself through an instrument, it was this charismatic, proud and sometimes erratic New Orleans jazz pioneer. Join the Friends of the Cabildo and Louisiana State Museum Music Curator David Kunian for this one night, behind-the-scenes look at the fascinating life and legendary music of Bechet. To order tickets online, visit our website at friendsofthecabildo.org or call 504.523.3939. Reservations required and tickets are limited. facebook.com/friendsofthecabildo • twitter.com/cabildofriends • instagram.com/friendsofthecabildo Page 3 News Board of Louisiana Directors State Museum Ruth Burke, Curator Greg President Lambousy Tamra Carboni, has been hired Administration to direct the Charles Chamberlain, development Education of the New Robert Freeland, Orleans Jazz Membership Museum, Ariana Ganak, scheduled to Fundraising open in 2018 Wendy Lodrig, at the Old U.S. Secretary Mint. Jeffery Howard, Treasurer Robert Applebaum Lauren Brower Ella Camburnbeck Louisiana State Museum curator named Robert Cangelosi Jeannine Chance Director of New Orleans Jazz Museum Richard Crawford Greg Lambousy has been hired to direct the renowned New Orleans Jazz Club Collections Michael M. Davis development of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, of the Louisiana State Museum. Collected over Marie Delaune which is slated to open at the Old U.S. Mint in 2018. several decades by the New Orleans Jazz Club, Jackie Graff Prior to accepting this position, Lambousy was this extraordinary assemblage of jazz artifacts was Mignonne Mary Hammel Director of Curatorial Services for the National donated by the club to the LSM in the late 1970s. Stephanie Haynes World War II Museum. He began his career Since that time, the Museum has expanded Harry Hardin at the New Orleans Museum of Art and its jazz-related holdings at the Old U.S. later moved to the Louisiana State Museum. Mint, laying the foundation for an all-new Lary Hesdorffer During his twenty-year tenure at the Jazz Museum. The New Orlweans Jazz Ann Irwin LSM, Lambousy managed the institution’s Museum will showcase the world’s largest Martha Irwin collections of more than 500,000 artifacts collection of early jazz instruments, as well Nairne Frazar and other historical items, directed as its extensive collection of photographs, Beth Landry improvements to collections storage at the Greg Lambousy artifacts and other ephemera focused Megan Layman New Orleans Mint, developed conservation on the origins, evolution and continuing Barry Mabry and digitization projects across collections and relevance of New Orleans jazz. within the Louisiana Historical Center archives, The opening of the New Orleans Jazz Museum Mick McIlwain conducted oral histories and guided the selection will be a major event in conjunction with the Grey Perkins and accession of materials related to Hurricane Tricentennial of the founding of New Orleans. Leslie Perrin Katrina. In addition, Lambousy helped establish The Museum will beautifully and permanently Robi Robichaux the annual Mighty Mississippi Downriver Festival, remake the Old U.S. Mint building, as well as the Craig Schexnayder developed the operational plan for the Mint surrounding grounds, and include 8,000 square Larry Schmidt Performing Arts Center and expanded the LSM’s feet of exhibition galleries, a visitor orientation music holdings by collecting a wide variety of theater, a youth and family education center, and Beth Sheridan artifacts related to jazz and other genres. rotating exhibitions. In combination with a state- Nancy Sorenson Strategically located at the intersection of the of-the-art live music performance venue located Debbye Vosbein city’s French Quarter and Frenchmen Street live on the Old U.S.