The Kings Players and the China Alley Preservation Society will host a centennial celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the Temple Theater. The theater, where the Kings Players perform, was
The Kings Players and the China Alley Preservation Society will host a centennial celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the Temple Theater. The theater, where the Kings Players perform, was
The Baton Rouge Police Department issued a Wednesday morning news release regarding its search for Freeman Richardson, a missing 57-year-old man who may have dementia.
It was probably too soon, but I made an attempt anyway. It has been two weeks since Mom died and yesterday I decided to take a cursory look at the mounds of paperwork she had amassed from being a community volunteer, preservationist, and historian for over fifty years. These papers are her story, her history, her work that lives on. I need to organize them.
Itâs going to be a bit of a job, if you will entertain my understatement. Mom did not have a computer, so nothing has been scanned into computer files or stored in a Cloud. Instead, I am confronting boxes of original documents and her meticulous notes, in which she detailed where a particular artifact was discovered (often accompanied with a photograph) before it was placed in the Taoist Temple museum. Her notebooks also include lists of China Alley tours, including dates, the names of tourists, where they were from, and why they were interested in visiting the Alley. Other boxes bulge with thorough notebooks on forty years