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Length: 80 minutes
Price: $19.95
Format: VHS
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Bayous, haunted
plantations, Cajuns, crawfish, jambalaya, jazz.
All images of Louisiana. And they're all true. But this historically
French, Spanish, Indian, African, and/or American state (depending
on who you talk to) is so much more. Discover a world brimming
with history, ethnic contrasts, cultural diversity, unexpected
pleasures, and, most of all, delightful legends.
In the northeast,
the archeological site of Poverty Point may be the oldest city
in the state, with its ancient bird-effigy mounds and
artifacts.
We also visit a working cotton
gin, the flowers of Elsong Gardens,
see rare bibles at the Biedenharn Bible
Museum and take a boat trip through Lake
Cheniere State Park.
In the town of Ruston,
the final days of Christ are re-created at the Passion
Play.
Shreveport has a "Voodoo
drugstore," the American Rose Center,
and the races at Louisiana Downs horse track.
We also meet a real
Louisiana Blues musician, Jesse "Babyface" Thomas.
In Natchitoches,
a tour of the city is just in time for the Christmas
Festival of Lights. The plantations surrounding
Melrose and Oakland are filled with stories.
In the center of
the state is the haunted plantation of Lloyd Hall with its ghost
stories.
Join the performers
at the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Blue Corn Festival.
In
Alexandria, we also tour the historic Hotel Bentley and Fort
Buhlow historical site with its Civil War re-enactment.
The state capitol,
Baton Rouge, introduces us to the political legends of the
assignation of Gov. Huey P. Long in the State Capitol Building.The
old capitol building is the site for the Louisiana
Blues Festival. We also join renown blues musician "Tabby"
Thomas.
The Great River
Road takes us by the antebellum plantations and a tour of Nottoway and
the Mississippi Bonfire Festival.
Touring New
Orleans through the downtown Garden District, Aquarium
of the Americas, French Quarter with
its Voodoo and mask-maker shops, ghosts of Metairie Cemetery
and meeting the Black Mardi Gras Indians.
Atchafalaya
Swamp tour Lafayette Area Vermillionville St.
Martinville Festival Acadiene Culinary
Classic deep-sea fishing hand-fishing
cemeteries the miracle of Grand Couteau Avery Island
Tabasco Tour
Morgan City Bayous La Fourche, Cocodrie Cajun Mardi
Gras Frog Festival faith healing crawfish
boil & crawfish-ing Cochon de lait Boudin-making
Allons À Louisiana!
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