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This digital document is an article from Focus on Geography, published by American Geographical Society on September 22, 2008. The length of the article is 3348 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Of storms and statues: reflections on Louisiana.
Author: Peter Mires
Publication: Focus on Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 51Issue: 2Page: 34(4)

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Whatever you do when you travel, get off the interstate. Who needs more bland rest stops and fast food? Get into the heart of things with Globe Pequot's Off the Beaten Path series. Devoted to travelers with a taste for the unique, this easy-to-use guide will help you discover the hidden places in Louisiana that most tourists miss - unsung, unspoiled, and out-of-the-way finds that liven up a week's vacation, a day trip or an afternoon. ... Read more

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Helpful Book For Travelers
This is a great book to get if you aren't very familiar with the state of Louisiana.Being a native, I picked this book up hoping to find something that I might have missed in my neck of the woods.The book breaks down the state into distinctive regions(much like the guide from the Louisiana Tourism Bureau) and picks out some fairly unique spots to check out.

My suggestion is that you use this book to make your way to the smaller towns in Louisiana, such as DeQuincy, Ville Platte, Mamou, Oberlin, etc.Then, find a local dive and ask someone there where the really good stuff is.

This book gets you to some great places, but you have to talk with the locals to find out the best places for anything in the Louisiana, 'cause we keep the best things to ourselves.They're our little secrets. ... Read more

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A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is—much like the state itself—a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana’s unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well. ... Read more

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Fascinating views of Louisiana via historic travel accounts
De Caro & Jordan have selected a range of travel accounts that manageto capture the diversity, contradiction, and character of Louisiana, fromcolonial times to the present.Their contemporary travel updates make thisbook useful to modern-day trippers, and the inclusion of selections byliterary luminaries such as Steinbeck broaden its appeal beyond Louisianialovers. ... Read more

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Chapters: Musicians' Village. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Musicians' Village (New Orleans, Louisiana) is a new neighborhood built around a music center where musicians can teach and perform. Musicians Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis teamed up with Habitat for Humanity International and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to create the village for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. Per February 2007, the Musicians' Village is "the largest-scale, highest-profile, and biggest-budget rebuilding project to have gotten underway in New Orleans post-Katrina." Habitat for Humanity and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, working with Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis, announced their plans Tuesday, December 6, 2005, for a Musicians Village in the Crescent City. The initial idea for the project, came from Harry Connick Jr and Branford Marsalis, both honorary chairs for Habitat for Humanity's national hurricane rebuilding program. When they returned to their hometown several weeks after the storm and were trying to come up with ways to help. "I had been kind of coming up blank. The problem is so massive, it's hard to know where to begin," Connick said. "As we talked, we both realized we should really stick to what we know, which is music." Sharing the idea with Jim Pate and with the members of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH), made the big idea into a big project, in New Orleans. The village and the home-replacement project are initiatives that reach beyond the mission of the nonprofit that for the past 22 years has been building only single-family homes for low-income residents on vacant lots, according to The Times-Picayune. Habitat began building in March, 2006. Branford Marsalis, said o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4337749 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, Garden District, Baton Rouge, Neighborhoods of Baton Rouge, Old South Baton Rouge, Beauregard Town, Spanish Town, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Garden District is a residential neighborhood located in Baton Rouge's Mid-City area where Park Boulevard intersects Government Street. The Garden District is an established historic area with many upscale homes and an active civic association . The Garden District is actually a conglomerate of three historic districts as defined by the Louisiana National Register of Historic Places. They are Roseland Terrace, Drehr Place, and Kleinert Terrace. Roseland Terrace is bounded by Government, 18th, Myrtle, and 22nd Streets. Placed on the National Register in 1982, it dates from between 1911 and 1930. Baton Rouge's first subdivision, Roseland Terrace, was "staked out" in 1911 by the Zadok Realty Company, which had bought the land in 1910 for the sum of $50,000. Prior to this time, the area had been a racetrack and had a decidedly rural character. The fence surrounding the track was covered with wild Cherokee roses. Stories are told that people warned Zadok Realty that the lots would never sell because they were too far out in the country. A citywide contest was held to name the development, and the winning entry was Roseland Terrace, in honor of the Cherokee roses in the area. To continue this theme, the streets were given flower names. The Zadok Realty Company made a deliberate effort to preserve and enhance the bucolic nature of the area by, for example, planting trees and hiding the telephone poles in the back alleyways. The company's ads boasted that there would be no telephone poles in the streets, but instead that they would be placed...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6540825 ... Read more

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) draft final technical report in March, 2009. In response to federal legislation, the Corps had to analyze hurricane protection, and design and present a full range of measures to protect against a storm equivalent to a category 5 hurricane. The request included measures for flood control, coastal restoration, and hurricane protection, and stipulated close coordination with the State of Louisiana and its appropriate agencies.

This is the second and final report from the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) Program. The committee was charged to review two draft reports from the LACPR team and to assess the hurricane risk reduction framework, alternatives for flood control, storm protection, coastal restoration, and risk analysis. This report presents this committee's review and advice for improvements of the LACPR March 2009 draft final technical report.
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on January 1, 1994. The length of the article is 6040 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Market gardens in an enclave of New Orleans produce foodstuffs that perpetuate traditional folkways of the Vietnamese immigrants who reside there, especially of the elderly of the community who tend these gardens. This type of market gardening is analyzed from ecological and spatial perspectives. Differences in garden location and size influence crop diversity, composition, and technological inputs. A three-garden typology is the framework for examining these ecological relationships.

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Title: Vietnamese market gardens in New Orleans. (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Author: Christopher A. Airriess
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v84Issue: n1Page: p16(16)

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 146 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book is an adventure story that pulls in the reader.Four kids and a TV talk show host are stuck in a runaway hot air balloon and as they travel around the state, readers try to figure out where they are based on the geographical features glimpsed from above and clues from the characters' conversations.Students get one point for every correct answer.Excellent for a classroom game, school-wide competition or individual reading.This is a great geography skill-builder + encourages research, map reading and more.Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book.Put this title high on your list! ... Read more