When the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities holds its annual awards banquet to honor Louisiana residents who make outstanding contributions to the humanities, Lafayette will be well-represented.
Folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet has been named the LEH's 2009 Humanist of the Year. The Scott resident and longtime UL Lafayette professor has worked for more than 30 years studying and preserving Cajun and Creole heritage and music.
The inaugural Michael P. Smith Memorial Award for Documentary Photography will go to local photographer Philip Gould. Since 1974, Gould has been documenting Louisiana life and has published his images in over a dozen books and countless periodicals.
The Humanities Documentary Film of the Year Award will be given to Charles E. Richard for writing and co-producing the LPB film, Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle. Richard is a UL English professor and director of the university's Cinematic Arts Workshop.
Cathy Mills, an art and Louisiana history teacher at Episcopal School of Acadiana, will be honored with the 2009 Humanities Teacher of the Year award. Mills uses interdisciplinary projects to help students tackle real-world issues facing Louisiana.
The Friends of the Humanities of Lafayette will be honored with The Chair's Award for Institutional Support. Formed 20 years, the group's original mission to support the humanities programs at UL has grown into the larger mission of support the humanities in the community.
The annual LEH annual awards banquet will take place on March 21, at the Houmas House Plantation and Gardens in Darrow.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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