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Nonprofit Spotlight: Lockport museum highlights history and culture along Bayou Lafourche
The Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum in Lockport plans to reopen next month for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020.
The Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum in Lockport works to preserve and promote the area s history and cultural heritage.
We asked Dee Dee Gaubert, a volunteer who works at the museum, to some questions about the nonprofit s services and needs. Her edited answers follow.
What services do you provide?
Our museum, at 110 Main St. in Lockport, is open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. until 4 pm. The last tour begins at 3:15 pm. The museum includes permanent and temporary exhibits that highlight history along Bayou Lafourche. Our permanent exhibit is called Bayou Excursion: 1910. It takes visitors on a make-believe journe
During the daylong fundraiser, residents can visit BayouGIVES.org and donate $10 or more to nonprofits working in Terrebonne, Lafourche and Grand Isle.
Courtesy of Maeve Wallace
Maeve Wallace, PhD, studies maternal mortality. Specifically, she studies the violent deaths of pregnant and postpartum women. She’s known for years that guns are involved in most cases of maternal mortality. But Wallace has never been able to recommend gun-restricting policies in her federally funded research papers or request federal funding for gun violence research until now.
After a 24-year-long ban, the federal government made funds available to study gun-violence and gun-violence prevention through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
“I think it’s sort of shocking to believe that it was banned for so long,” Wallace said. “If we were to really think about the magnitude of loss of life among pregnant and postpartum women in this country, we want to include homicide and suicide to really capture the magnitude of this problem.”