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Louisiana Wrote the Natchitoches Meat Pie Into State Law in 2003. The Town Has Been Making Them Since at Least the 1820s.
Louisiana has an official state meat pie, and it is spelled out in law. "There shall be an official state meat pie," reads Section 170.9 of Title 49 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. "The official state meat pie shall be the Natchitoches Meat Pie." The Legislature passed it in 2003, and the act even authorizes the pie's use on official state documents and alongside the state insignia. The pie itself is simple to describe. It is a half-moon hand pie with a crimped edge, fille
Elvis Played the Louisiana Hayride 72 Years Ago Today, and You Can Still Walk Across That Shreveport Stage
On Oct. 16, 1954, a young singer from Memphis walked onto the stage of the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport for his first appearance on the Louisiana Hayride. Elvis Presley had already been turned away by the Grand Ole Opry. Seventy-two years later, the building where Shreveport gave him a weekly radio audience is still standing at 705 Elvis Presley Avenue, and you can still walk across that stage. The Hayride started more than six years before Elvis got there. It went on t
The Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Is Two Summers From 100, and It Started With Two Fish Under an Old Fort
For three days at the end of every July, Grand Isle fills up. The barrier island at the bottom of Jefferson Parish swaps its quiet for boat trailers, a rodeo tent and weigh-in crowds, all for a fishing tournament its organizers call the oldest in the United States. The International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo was founded in 1928, which puts its 100th anniversary two summers away. This year's rodeo, held July 23 to 25, showed how much the island is at the mercy of the Gulf. Tropi
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Why Louisiana Has Parishes, and Who Actually Runs Yours
Every Louisiana kid learns early that the state has parishes where the rest of the country has counties. Fewer people could say why, or who actually decides when their parish road gets patched. The answer runs from Spanish colonial church records to the 1974 state constitution, and it explains why local government looks so different from one parish to the next. The word comes from the colonial era, when local life in French and Spanish Louisiana was organized around Catholic
Supreme Court to hear arguments on Louisiana congressional map
The United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., where justices are set to review the constitutionality of Louisiana's new...
Pushing back school start times to address truency in LA
Middle and High School students across Louisiana could be starting school at later times within the next few years. According to a new...
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