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The Ogden Museum of Southern Art: New “New” Orleans, Louisiana

Story and Photos by mary gallagher One never knows the full impact of even the smallest gestures we make as sometimes until years go by. The new Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, has its roots in a gift of art from Roger Ogden...

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art: New “New” Orleans, Louisiana

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art: New “New” Orleans, Louisiana

Story and photos by Mary Gallagher One never knows the full impact of even the smallest gestures we make as sometimes until years go by. The new Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, has its roots in a gift of art from Roger Ogden and...

GRETNA, JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA

by Mary Gallagher Perhaps some people feel comfortable everywhere and anywhere but I’m not one of them. Although some parts of the south have not always treated me real well, my visits to Louisiana have been wonderful. Many tourists focus on New...

Economic Revitalization Is Reshaping Shreveport, Louisiana

Story by Felicia Persaud Photos by Mary Gallagher Eleven years ago, in 1992, the unemployment rate in Shreveport, Bossier County of Louisiana was a whopping 10.2 percent. Today the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the rate has dropped to 6.5 percent....

Chateau Sonesta Lobby

French Quarter Welcomes Visitors Back

By Kathie Farnell Photos by Jack Purser Ignatius is back. The statue of Ignatius J. Reilly, embattled hero of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, is back at the Canal Street entrance of the Chateau Sonesta (which in its previous life as the DH Holmes Department...

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