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Book Synopsis Louisiana Legends & Lore by : Alan Brown
Download or read book Louisiana Legends & Lore written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flicker out, hushed conversations bleed into the darker mysteries of the Pelican State. Storied outlaws like John Murrell, Eugene Bunch and Leather Britches Smith steal into the room. Voodoo priestesses Marie Laveau and Julia Brown are already there, along with the Phantom Whistler and the Axeman of New Orleans. Folklorist Alan Brown educates and entertains with tales of the unseemly, bizarre and otherworldly, like the legends of the Rougarou, the Lutin and the Honey Island Swamp Monster."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Legends & Lore by : Alan Brown
Download or read book Louisiana Legends & Lore written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flicker out, hushed conversations bleed into the darker mysteries of the Pelican State. Storied outlaws like John Murrell, Eugene Bunch and Leather Britches Smith steal into the room. Voodoo priestesses Marie Laveau and Julia Brown are already there, along with the Phantom Whistler and the Axeman of New Orleans. Folklorist Alan Brown educates and entertains with tales of the unseemly, bizarre and otherworldly, like the legends of the Rougarou, the Lutin and the Honey Island Swamp Monster.
Book Synopsis Always for the Underdog by : Keagan LeJeune
Download or read book Always for the Underdog written by Keagan LeJeune and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from newspapers, court records, and a decade of interviews and observation, LeJeune offers a penetrating examination of the interplay between legend and place, exploring Smith's own life, this unique historical moment, and the place's mysterious landscape. The book also considers how contemporary festivals and other forms of cultural heritage employ the legend as a cultural recourse. To stay vibrant and meaningful, culture constantly re-makes itself; here, the outlaw occupies a vital role in the re-creation. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Swapping Stories written by Carl Lindahl and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews—whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.
Book Synopsis Bow Wow Louisiana Dogs in History, Mystery, Legend, Lore, Humor and More by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book Bow Wow Louisiana Dogs in History, Mystery, Legend, Lore, Humor and More written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Legends of the Louisiana Cowgirls: The Complete Story by : Thomas Julius Reale
Download or read book The Legends of the Louisiana Cowgirls: The Complete Story written by Thomas Julius Reale and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story takes place in Louisiana in the 1800's. A family from Brazil come to America to buy farms and ranches using money earned from coffee plantations and lumber mills in Rio and Sao Paolo. The daughter, 21 year old Donna, takes command of the Blue Cross Ranchos, which are expanding rapidly and gets herself in skirmishes that only she can get out of.The story has incidents that are described with detail, fact, and fiction to create a saga that will be remembered for a long time. It is a traditional style like old south western stories never written before. A large colorful cast of characters add to the excitement. The Crosstininni's run for it after selling their vast real estate empire to the U.S. Standard Oil Co. for salt and oil explorations in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Louisiana Cowgirls and fifty of their employees head for Houston, Texas. Their board the MacKay Clipper Ship sailing for Rio, Brazil to meet family and their lucrative lumber mills and coffee empire. Relaxing along the Amazon and seaports is cut short by a planned war between family and the capital of Columbia-Cali. So once again the Clipper Ship sails off, arriving at the port of Yucatan, near Mexico. There they meet British Archaeologists who are unearthing ancient pyramids (Aztec?). Denim Blue and her friends help the British smuggle mummies who twitch when exposed to smoke from burning sacred Tanin Leaves. Follow the action-right to a Baltimore, Maryland museum.
Book Synopsis New Orleans: Facts and Legends by : Raymond J. Martinez
Download or read book New Orleans: Facts and Legends written by Raymond J. Martinez and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW ORLEANS: FACTS AND LEGENDS is a classic compilation of history, tales, and folklore about the Crescent City. It is peppered with numerous vintage photographs of historic sites and the legendary men and women who framed Louisiana's life and lore. Now available in a quality ebook edition, it features active contents, linked table of illustrations, proper digital formatting, and all the illustrations from the original print book. Maintained in its original edition and accurately reproduced, this book is perfect for tourists and locals alike, including curious teens and old-timers. It was written and presented by two well-known keepers of New Orleans' rich heritage. The contents include: • The History of Mardi Gras • Jackson Square • French or Spanish? • Explorers of the Mississippi • Was Jean Lafitte Truly a Pirate? • The Old New Orleans Mint • Antique Furniture in Louisiana • Charity Hospital in 1859 • Yellow Fever and the Mosquito • The German Coast and Creole Descendants • Landmarks of New Orleans • The Old River Front • Canal Street in 1857 • The Customhouse of New Orleans • Louisiana Sugar and Molasses Mills Presented in a carefully proofread and formatted digital edition, this new republication at last makes readily available, preserved in its original contents, a classic New Orleans book.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Wheel of Fortune! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book Louisiana Wheel of Fortune! written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survivor GameBook is reproducible and allows kids to learn about their state through timed activities, prize suggestions and an official survivor certificate. The book includes timed, multiple-choice questions, fill in the blank questions, choose the appropriate dates and matching that are challenging and fun to answer. This book covers fascinating state facts and meets state standards.
Download or read book Swapping Stories written by Lindahl, Carl and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews--whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.
Download or read book Gumbo ya-ya written by Lyle Saxon and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hard-to-Believe-but-True! Book of Louisiana History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore, Humor and More by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book The Hard-to-Believe-but-True! Book of Louisiana History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore, Humor and More written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legends of Louisiana by : Helen Pitkin Schertz
Download or read book Legends of Louisiana written by Helen Pitkin Schertz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legends of Louisiana: The Romance of the Royal Oak, And, the Brother of the Sultan He. Choicest of the legends of Louisiana is that concerning Charlotte, daughter of the Duke of Brunswick and your concurrence in this opinion is awaited when you will have unfolded its sentimental episodes. One must regress into an earlier, more romantic, epoch to credit this love-story, for today few are given the understanding of the sacred arts, and rare indeed are the souls willing to suffer immo lation and the purification by that white fire which prepares one fitly to receive true passion. Our hearts are set to the horologe of haste - a tempo which Love flies in dismay. This is a century of tempest and defence and the recoil of the buffeted is to frivolity and a desperate carelessness rather than the repose of awesome Love. Our contacts are electrical rather than magnetic. Our touch is a grasp rather than the medium of a thrill. Therefore Love languishes and it may be will cease altogether. Instinct is not Love, so the world will go on and there will be posterity which will throb to cold ambition. Come to the hearth, then, and let us rake the em bers, for this thought is chilling. Presently we will be warmed by another fire, out of the cycles where dead Romance wakens at our call as if we might control the clarion of Domesday itself! New Orleans children - rather let us be explicit, Creole children - have been told for just a shaving off two hundred years, the tale of the live-oak on Bayou St. John, that slumbrous estuary whose ancient source was the overflow of the Mississippi. It is in indign company, amid the refuse of timber-remnants which may not even be used for patching in a shabby little ship-yard where keels of small craft are scraped of barnacles and decks renewed. It isvibrated throughout the day by the tick-tack of hammers and at night when all is quiet, by the occasional appulse of a street-car as it attacks the Esplanade bridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Story of Louisiana by : Thompson Maurice
Download or read book Story of Louisiana written by Thompson Maurice and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louisiana Live Oak Lore by : Ethelyn Gay Orso
Download or read book Louisiana Live Oak Lore written by Ethelyn Gay Orso and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poverty Point Legends & Lore by : Jon L. Gibson
Download or read book Poverty Point Legends & Lore written by Jon L. Gibson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists have been investigating the ruins of Poverty Point for decades, piecing together a fascinating picture of a 3,500-year-old hunter-gatherer way of life. But Poverty Point is more than an archaeological treasure-trove. It's also an eerie locus for southeastern native lore. Cold breezes on warm nights stir up spirit foxes and singing locusts. Otherworldly messages find their conduit in the drumming of trees and hooting of owls. Archaeologist and author Jon Gibson unearths the strange narratives that are as much a part of Poverty Point as the artifacts and earthworks themselves.
Download or read book GUMBO YA-YA written by Robert Tallant and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987-05-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic Gumbo Ya-Ya. Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs, Gumbo Ya-Ya chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country. Meet the Krewe of Zulu, New Orleans' most colorful all-black Carnival club, and the many tribes of Indians who help celebrate Mardi Gras with their fierce pageantry. Listen to the street criers entice customers to buy their goods. Produce peddlers hawk watermelon, cantaloupe, snap and butter beans, and strawberries. The charcoal man sells fuel to stoke the wash-day fires, while the kindling man offers to saw two cords for a dollar and dinner. Zabette and Rose Gla dispense the choicest coffee available in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The bottle man collects old bottles, rags, and bones, driving a hard bargain with the children who expect handfuls of peppermints, whistles, horns, and rattles for their hoards of treasure. All aspects of society are detailed in this wonderful album of Louisiana tradition: the Vieux Carr Creoles, with their strict codes of family honor; the burly Irish Channel immigrants; the lively Italians who still honor St. Joseph and St. Rosalia with all the pomp of the Old Country; and the fun-loving Cajuns, with their curious family names and spirited fais do do. There's no escaping superstition and voodoo in Louisiana. Several sections explain the customs and beliefs that have sprung up over the centuries. Always burn onion peels to ensure a steady supply of money. Sprinkle nutmeg in a woman's left shoe every night at midnight to drive her crazy. Kiss your elbow to change your sex. Gumbo Ya-Ya ( Everybody Talks at Once ) is a charming look at the legends and practices of Louisiana, particularly New Orleans. Originally written as part of the WPA's Louisiana Writers' Program, it has endured as a classic of its genre and is again available in a beautiful Pelican edition.
Book Synopsis Legendary Louisiana Outlaws by : Keagan LeJeune
Download or read book Legendary Louisiana Outlaws written by Keagan LeJeune and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.
