620. Part 2 of our conversation with Rien Fertel. “I’m a Louisiana-born and based writer and teacher. My most recent book, out September 2022, is Brown Pelican, a human history of the very best bird. I’ve penned three earlier books. The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera, #133 in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, about a road trip based on a recent classic album about a road trip. The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog,a personal/historical reflection on race, labor, and foodways in the Deep South, came out in 2016 from Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint. My first book, Imagining the Creole City, an intellectual and literary study of a circle of writers in nineteenth-century New Orleans, arrived in 2014.”
- Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy.
The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it
as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in
print for the first time in 221 years. Order your copy today!
- This week in Louisiana history. April 5, 1893. First
electric railway car runs in Baton Rouge.
- This week in New Orleans history. April 6, 1914. Duck chosen
over frog. In 1914, the Daily Picayune and the Times-Democrat
newspapers merged and published both banners across the tops
of pages. Ashton Phelps took the reigns as president of what
would become The Times-Picayune. The Times-Democrat's
duck mascot appeared on the front page on April 6, 1914,
taking the place of the Picayune's frog mascot, which
first appeared twenty years earlier, on January 13, 1894.
- This week in Louisiana.
April 11-13, 2025
Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival
Ponchatoula Memorial Park
301 North 6th St.
Ponchatoula, LA
strawberryfest@bellsouth.net
800.917.7045
Website
Strawberry Capital of the World
Since 1972, the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival has attracted
visitors from near and far to celebrate our local strawberry
farmers, non-profits, and our special community, flourishing
into the largest free harvest festival in the state of
Louisiana. Join us for three days filled with time-honored
traditions, amazing food and drinks, live music, rides, and
loads of family fun!
- Postcards from Louisiana. Louisiana Book Festival Band.
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