Local Legend & Lore We once had a teacher who had a sizable collection of Danish Christmas plates. Patsy Wilson had a wonderful one of demitasse spoons - they didn't take up much room or add much weight to her husband...
Sumner Speaks: First Day of School There is a special but familiar excitement in the air. It reminds one of football games under Friday night lights. Of pep rallies and of your favorite class or club. Everyone has a grin on their fa...
Nurturing Our Roots: Genealogy for Children Genealogy for kids can be a lot of fun, “if children find learning about their family history to be fun, they will be happy to learn more.” Children have a natural curiosity about everything. Th...
Nurturing Our Roots: Genealogy for Children Genealogy for kids can be a lot of fun, “if children find learning about their family history to be fun, they will be happy to learn more.” Children have a natural curiosity about everything. Th...
Rising up from Defeat Since the Bible is an accurate record of the lives of many people, it reveals the shortcomings and failures of human nature. It also tells of miraculous rescues of those who had become great disap...
Local Lore & Legend Rocky Saxon is a professional musician in Baton Rouge. We mentioned his “sound” recently. It was Feb., I believe.
His parents, Eloise Daigle and Roy Saxon took the name for their Kentwood picture s...
Nurturing Our Roots African American History
of Tangipahoa & St. Helena Parishes
Preserved at Southeastern Louisiana and the Amistad Research Center
For the past seventeen years I have spent my life and time conductin...
East Fork Community News Welcome back to East Fork news.
I have a lot of news I would love to share with you, but East Fork has lost a pillar of the community and I felt we should pay tribute to him.
Mr. Charles “Charlie”...
East Fork Community News Here we are again in the small community of East Fork!
I would like to start out by saying congrats to Mr. Dwight Kliesch and Mrs. Montez Jackson whom got married at East Fork Baptist Church. The b...
Local Lore & Legend This quartet of men in a 1932 picture was taken on the front steps of Juanita and “Doc” Lambert’s home on Avenue I.
I am not sure of the identy of three. “Doc,” a long time barber is back right. ...