Podcast appearances and mentions of Earl K Long

527. Cheryl White joins us to discuss her research into the Yellow Fever outbreak in Shreveport in 1873, and the priests who died while ministering to patients suffering from the fever. Dr White recently unveiled a report on the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1873 and the COVID outbreak of 2020. "The sacrifice of five Catholic priests who gave their lives ministering to people in Shreveport during the 1873 yellow fever epidemic is memorialized in stained glass at Holy Trinity Church in downtown. Their stories have been regularly recounted across nearly 150 years of news reports and histories of Shreveport. The city's Pierre Avenue is named in honor of one of them, Father Jean Pierre, the first pastor of Holy Trinity. And now their story is becoming more widely known in the Catholic Church in the U.S. and beyond with the formal opening of their sainthood case" (Catholic Herald). This week in Louisiana history. June 15, 2015. Blaze Starr, dancer linked to Earl K. Long, dead at 83. This week in New Orleans history. Upstairs Lounge Fire, June 24, 1973. This week in Louisiana. Annual Lebeau Zydeco Festival July 01, 2023 103 Lebeau Church Road Lebeau LA 71345 Phone: (337) 945-4238 Email: gmlemon@yahoo.com Website It's all zydeco music, all day long at the Lebeau Zydeco Festival. From the place that gave us zydeco hits like, “Don't Mess With My Toot Toot” comes an annual celebration of the genre and its roots in the Creole community. Located on the grounds of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lebeau, Louisiana, this festival was made for the fans. It features the most popular zydeco music bands in South Louisiana. Bring a dancing partner, maybe a lawn chair, and an appetite. The festival is famous for its pork backbone dinners. This year, performers include Horace Trahan & the Ossun Express, CJ Vedell & the Zydeco Grapplers, Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Step Rideau & the Zydeco Outlaws, and Mike Broussard & N Edition Zydeco. No BBQ pits, ATVs, glass containers, or ice chests/coolers allowed. This festival is held annually on the first Saturday of July. Admission is $20 for adults and $10 for kids. Get your festival shirt by contacting Sherrie at 337-257-9457 Postcards from Louisiana. Ben Christmas Cajun Band. Listen on Google Play. Listen on Google Podcasts. Listen on Spotify. Listen on Stitcher. Listen on TuneIn. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

369. Part 1 of our interview with Skylar Dean. Hundreds gathered in Ruston on Thursday, June 4, to march and protest against racial injustice in response to George Floyd's death. The march began on Louisiana Tech's campus and ended at city hall. It was organized by Louisiana Tech student Skylar Dean, along with help from her roommates. Dean said she believes it's everyone's responsibility to speak up against racial injustice. "If you think institutional racism isn't a problem, I would like you to ask your inner self, would you be comfortable being treated the way your fellow black Americans are in America," she said. This week in Louisiana history. June 15, 2015. Blaze Starr, dancer linked to Earl K. Long, dead at 83. This week in New Orleans history. Melvin Lloyd ("Mel") Parnell, born in New Orleans on June 13, 1922, was a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher. This week in Louisiana. Beauregard Watermelon Festival June 26th, 2020 - June 27th, 2020 Beauregard Parish Fairgrounds 506 West Dr., DeRidder, LA 70634 337-463-5534 | 800-738-5534 Website | Email The Beauregard Watermelon Festival celebrates the harvest of the local Sugartown Watermelons. At the festival you will find carnival rides, jackpot livestock show, retail and craft vendors, watermelon eating and seed spitting contests, get in on the action of the Great American Watermelon Haul, watermelon carving contest, unique food booths and much more. Louisiana's best entertainers. Beauregard Watermelon Festival, Louisiana Fun, Sugartown Sweet!!! Postcards from Louisiana. Roz's band at Favela Chic.Listen on iTunesListen on StitcherListen on Google Play.Listen on Spotify.Listen on TuneIn.The Louisiana Anthology Home Page.Like us on Facebook.

Jack McGuire met then-Governor Earl K. Long during Long’s 1959 campaign for Lieutenant Governor (in those days, Louisiana governors were barred from seeking re-election to successive terms). McGuire was a senior at Newman High School in New Orleans. He’d been assigned a paper on the state elections that year, and chose to look at Long despite the fact that Jack’s father David McGuire had been kicked out of LSU in the 1930s (along with six other journalism students) for refusing to apologize to Huey Long for calling for him to stop interfering with the coaching of the LSU football team. By 1959, David McGuire was chief administrative officer for New Orleans Mayor Chep Morrison — who had run against (and lost) to Earl Long in the 1955-56 governor’s race (primary elections then were late in one year with runoffs early the next. Governor’s were inaugurated in May then). “I didn’t think I had too much to learn from the anti-Longs, so I talked to my father about following Earl,” Jack recalls. They first connected in New Orleans during that campaign. Earl, who’d suffered a breakdown while addressing the Legislature in April of that year, was subsequently committed by his wife Blanche to a mental hospital in Galveston, TX, and then Southeast Louisiana Hospital in Mandeville. Jack actually attended the hearing where Earl was released from Southeast Louisiana Hospital after firing the director of the hospital system and then having the new director fire the head of the hospital itself. Earl ran third in the race for Lieutenant Governor. His political career seemed finished. Uncle Earl, as Long was called, decided that he was not done. He chose to challenge incumbent Democratic Congressman Harold McSween for the Eighth District Congressional seat that Earl’s brother George had held for eight years until his death in 1958. Earl was all in. Jack and a couple of high school friends decided to follow Earl on the campaign trail for a couple of weekends during the summer of 1960. What Jack saw in the desperate campaign that Earl Long waged moved him in a fundamental way. He spent a significant amount of his adult life working to claim Earl’s essence from the sensationalistic, often tawdry press coverage and academic writing that portrayed the three-time Governor and brother of Huey Long as a crazy man. Jack gathered an incredible collection of articles, photographs, memorabilia, and interviews with people who knew Long and/or were involved in that 1960 campaign, which ultimately took Uncle Earl’s life. Flooding from Katrina in Mandeville claimed much of Jack’s collection of material on Earl Long. But, because he had shared it with so many people in an effort to get them to write the story of that last campaign, he was able to reassemble his materials and even added to the collection. It became clear that Jack was going to have to write the book on Earl’s last campaign if it was going to be written. University Press of Mississippi sent the original manuscript to readers. One liked it; one hated it. UPM said that if Jack would take into consideration the comments from the readers, they would be willing to take another look at it. Jack and the late Water Cowan had written an earlier book on Louisiana governors that UPM published. Jack turned to me to help him edit the book and get it into shape for reconsideration. We worked together on it for about seven months in 2014 and 2015. We sent off the revised manuscript in April 2015, the weekend before Jack went in for knee replacement surgery. The UPM editors loved the new approach and committed to publish the book. Jack left it to me to deal with the New York copy editor UPM chose to work with us, and to track down many of the photos that ended up in the book. Jack’s son Barrett helped cover the cost involved with printing the additional photographs that contribute to much to the quality of the book. The book, Win The Race Or Die Trying: Uncle Earl’s Last Hurrah, came out in late August, 2016, just ahead of Earl’s birthday. Shortly after that, Jack conducted a series of book signings and radio interviews across the state to publicize it which stretched into 2017. In this interview, Jack talks about Earl’s tumultuous last years and the campaign into which Earl ignored doctor’s warnings and poured every last bit of energy he had into it to defeat McSween. The book has been well received. The interview covers some ground not in the book, particularly dealing with his father David.

Muy buenas amigos, un nuevo viaje al pasado con la entrega nº 94 de OLD TIME COUNTRY SHOTS, correspondiente al sábado 6 de Mayo. Os dejo el podcast en IVOOX con la posibilidad de descargarlo y escucharlo a lo largo de la semana, saludos. www.albertobasarte.net Hoy con la siguiente programación: 1- Sheb Wooley - Peeping Through The Keyhole 2- Louisiana Ramblers - My Troubled Mind 3- Andy Parker & The Plainsmen - Rooty-Toot-Galoot 4- Clyde Moody - Shenandoah Waltz 5- Hank Harral - Tank Town Boogie 6- Johnny Duncan - Last Train To San Fernando 7- Mervin Shiner - Landslide Of Love 8- Hank Williams - Next Sunday, Darling, Is My Birthday 9- Red River Dave - Reeling Cowboy 10- Lloyd Weaver - Virginia (From West Virginia) 11- Allen Shelton - Lonesome Road Blues 12- The Tennessee Three - A Boy Named Sue 13- Cliff Carlisle - Payday Fight 14- Jack Tate - Casanova 15- Buster, Stoney & The Buckaroos - Daisy Mae 16- Chester Odom - That's All 17- Chuck Harding - Leap Year Blues 18- Red Kirk - Knock Out The Lights And Call The Law 19- Ernie Barton - The Battle Of Earl K. Long 20- Max Alexander - Little Rome 21- Bill Grubbs - My Gal Alice 22- Hoyle Nix - Summit Ridge Drive Este programa tiene una misión muy simple, desempolvar los viejos discos y recuperar toda la música pionera del country actual, viajar hacia atrás en la máquina del tiempo hasta los años 30-40-50 y 60 para escuchar buena música hillbilly, western swing, boogie-woogie, ragtime y rockabilly. Mucha música concentrada en una hora.