A really lovely tribute to a lady and a scholar, by her husband. Her story is as remarkable as she was: She had grown up in Lake Providence, Louisiana, a small town in the northeast of the state near the Arkansas border, in what was and still is the poorest county in the United States. [...]
Tag Archives: Louisiana
Virginia Brown.
11-Mar-10http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35537878/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001
The Angola Rodeo.
21-Apr-09On Sunday I took a trip up to the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. The prison is located on 18,000 acres along the Mississippi River and is often called “The Farm.” It is apparently a lineal descendant of a plantation called Angola whose owner leased convicts from the state to till his land; [...]
A.J. Liebling and the Gret Stet.
08-Apr-09In writing there are only two things, matter and treatment. In Abbott Joseph Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana we have matter so interesting that it still holds the attention fifty years later in itself, and treatment so virtuosic one is tempted to proclaim Liebling a literary figure rather than a journalist. As far as matter [...]