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NSU and Heritage Resources Program Featured on Channel 3

NSU and the Heritage Resources Program were featured on Channel 3 news this morning. Check it out: http://bit.ly/3C3AYZ Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on November 19, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Collaborate with your family and friends to build an online family history using free genealogy tools

Historically, if you had a phobia of paper clutter, genealogy was not for you. Part of the joy of the search is to find that one certificate of birth, death, marriage, or divorce that launches your research in a totally different direction. After a while, compiling all this information so that it is in context and easily searchable gets to be a chore. Family history software does a good job of organizing information but it lacks a critical element: collaboration. Often, folks start the genealog… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on November 17, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

Voices of the Past Video Netcast: Genealogy Gems' Lisa Louise Cooke

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Added by Jeffery K Guin on November 11, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

Breda Town Cemetery: Revitalizing community with heritage resources (podcast part 1)

Breda Town Cemetery Association President Chris Paige talks about building partnerships and strengthening community through the restoration of the Breda Town Cemetery.

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Added by Jeffery K Guin on November 7, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

NHF sponsors fall cemetery cleanup, Gala

It seems autumn is primetime for the Natchitoches Historic Foundation. NHF is offering the public several opportunities to discover Natchitoches heritage in the next few weeks. On Saturday, Oct. 31, the Natchitoches Historic Foundation held its annual Haunted History Tour from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The tour focused on some of the more dramatic events in Natchitoches history. Local actors portrayed the people that were central to these events at stations around American Cemetery. In many cases, these… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on November 5, 2009 at 9:13am — No Comments

Voices of the Past Video Netcast: Featuring Dave Moyer, teenage new media producer and historic preservation activist

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Added by Jeffery K Guin on October 15, 2009 at 3:06pm — No Comments

Column: The Hunting Traditions of Natchitoches Parish

We had our first taste of breathable air this past week. Meanwhile, shotgun shells are flying from store shelves as the squirrels seem a little edgier. It's hunting season again in Natchitoches Parish. Of all our heritage traditions, few have been more integral--and are now more endangered--than those rooted in the search for game. Not many folks these days would know what to do if all the fast food joints shut down. It's funny to think that as recently as my father's generation, people in rura… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on October 4, 2009 at 8:16pm — No Comments

Podcast: Discovering Natchitoches' Multi-National Military Heritage

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Added by Jeffery K Guin on September 17, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Podcast: Seven myths about the historic building material bousillage

Max Turner and Marcy Frantom of the Quality Finish Company continue their discussion about Natchitoches Parish's historic and versatile building material: bousillage.

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Added by Jeffery K Guin on September 12, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Bousillage: One of Natchitoches Parish's most historic and versatile building materials

Students from L.P. Vaughn Elementary and Middle School learn how to make and apply bousillage during a heritage education activity at the Badin-Roque house. Bousillage is a Creole masonry mixture that became a popular building material locally in the 1700s. Bousillage is one of those product… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on September 11, 2009 at 8:51am — No Comments

Podcast: What is Bousillage? with Max Turner and Marcy Frantom

Max Turner and Marcy Frantom of the preservation trades company Quality Finish, Inc., talk about the traditional building material bousillage and how it was used in the Cane River region. For more information, visit www.natchitochespreservation.com Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on September 3, 2009 at 10:45am — No Comments

Is the Kate Chopin House still relevant? It's a matter of interpretation.

By Jeff Guin What good could come out of a burned-out husk of a building? Could a museum's ruins contribute to a culture the same way it did when it was still intact? Few would dispute the significance of ruins found in most of the world's ancient settlements. But easy answers are harder to come by in modern America when a structure is destroyed at merely 200 years old, in a rural location, during a bad economy. Heritage Resources students at Northwestern State University o… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on August 31, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

PIYC on UStream

It took a bit to work out some technical difficulties, so the presentation doesn't actually begin until the 1 min. 30 sec. mark. See more from the event at budurl.com/piyclive Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on August 13, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Cane River Creole National Historical Park collections and exhibits projects to be featured Aug. 11

Sometimes it's easy to forget what a privilege it is to have a National Park right here in our own backyard. And the Cane River Creole National Historical Park is something to be proud of by any measure. On Aug. 11, Park staff will be on hand to discuss some of their most interesting projects about the cultural heritage of our area during the ninth annual "Preservation in Your Community" event. Dustin Fuqua will briefly present the Park's activities over the last year. In particular, Dusty wil… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on August 3, 2009 at 8:55am — No Comments

New Podcast: "The Enigmatic Joe Evans" talks about entering the NSU Master of Arts in Heritage Resources program

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Added by Jeffery K Guin on July 23, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Ghosts of Cane River plantations past to be featured this Friday on the Travel Channel

While I've covered a lot of historical figures and their gravesites over the past year, this is my first column devoted to ghosts--conceptually anyway. This coming Friday, June 26, Magnolia Plantation makes its television debut in the Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures." And while the show isn't known for its in-depth exploration of heritage, it does open up a lot of opportunity to learn more about one our region's most historic sites. Magnolia was established in 1830 by Ambroise LeComte to… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on June 24, 2009 at 9:52am — 1 Comment

Experience the best of heritage at Melrose Arts and Crafts Festival this weekend

This weekend is the Melrose Arts and Crafts Festival. While the event holds a lot of potential for buying and selling, visitors can also plan on several very interesting heritage preservation experiences while in the area. There's no doubting Melrose's historic credentials. The nearly 200-year-old plantation was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. In 2008, it was included among the first 26 sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The Association for the Preservation… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on June 13, 2009 at 12:37pm — No Comments

NCPTT interns take on preservation research this summer

(Caption: NCPTT interns this summer include (l-r) Joe Evans, Megan Smith, Molly McGath, Kayla Wagner, Bethany Frank, Josh Springer, Eric Guidry and Curtis Desselles. Not pictured is Jessica Cleaver.) Natchitoches’ preservation population grew just a little this… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on June 10, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Potpourri celebrates 100 years of documenting NSU history

NSU's yearbook, the Potpourri, is celebrating a century of documenting the university's history. This week, I've invited Bethany Frank to share her reflections on the Potpourri. Bethany is entering her second year as editor of the publication. Here's what she had to say: I never liked history. I hated sitting through the hour-long class where we discussed the events of the past and the people they involved. I used to sit and wonder why we even bothered to contemplate the who, the when and the w… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on May 18, 2009 at 8:24pm — No Comments

What places in Natchitoches matter to you?

May is National Preservation Month. The Natchitoches Preservation Network will once again celebrate by participating in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's "This Place Matters" social media campaign that will be taking place across the country. In case you don't remember, This Place Matters was designed by the Trust "to help people share the place that matters to them, wherever these places happen to be." This is demonstrated by participants photographing or filming themselves holdin… Continue

Added by Jeffery K Guin on May 5, 2009 at 11:04am — No Comments