River Road Rambler : A Curious Traveler along Louisiana's Historic Byway /

The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. The author has spent over two decades exploring this richly historical corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places. This book presents fifteen sketches about sites alo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sternberg, Mary Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Historic sites.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Historic sites > Louisiana > River Road.
Louisiana > River Road.
River Road (La.) > Social life and customs.
River Road (La.) > History, Local.
River Road (La.) > History.
Local history.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sacred Spaces. Sacred Recycling ; Look What They Found! ; The Hardware Shul
  • Elegant Evidence. For the Life of a Garden ; The Story of Those Columns
  • Cultural Collections. My Guide at Carville Is Mr. Pete ; Once upon a Time in St. James Parish
  • Boats and the River. With an Eye on the Batture ; Le Pelican't ; The Queen and I ; The Story of Captain Mike
  • Relicts of the "Peculiar Institution". The Ironic History of Destrehan ; A Place with a Past Ever-Present
  • Even the Products Have Stories. A Tale of Tobacco ; Anatomy of a Company Town.

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