Bayou History Center Inc

17/11/2025

I just watched the first Godfather this past week. I had forgotten how great this movie is. I still remember my first impressions of the movie when my older brother and his wife brought me with them to the movie theatre at Southland Mall. This post just adds to the mystic of success.

Marlon Brando memorized very few of his lines for The Godfather (1972), so Robert Duvall had to wear a large cue-card placard for him to read from.

07/11/2025

Save the date! Join us on November 20th for an engaging conversation with Billy Nungesser Lt. Governor of Louisiana as we explore Louisiana’s booming tourism industry, the hidden gems in our own backyard, and how young professionals can champion our state’s culture and communities.

Members and guests are welcomed! Light bites will be provided and members will drink for free.

Register now at https://forum225.org/events/ #!event/2025/11/20/how-to-be-a-tourist-in-your-own-state-with-lt-governor-billy-nungesser

28/10/2025

BHC has reached a reflection point in its transformation plan. Part of the plan included an assessment of strength of its FB page with a normal flow of postings. The following is a summary of the BHC FB page analytics for the period of June 1, 2025 through October 28, 2025.

(1) Views - 1,608,627
(2) Impressions - 1,141,650
(3) Interactions - 25,087
(4) Net Followers - +649 to 64,302
(5) Reactions - 19,383
(6) Comments - 3,443
(7) Shares - 2,261
(8) Reach - 846,727

Please see the attachment to this post for the next steps to the Transformation Plan.

Thanks,
Philip Whitney

16/10/2025

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BHC is creating an Initial Sustaining Membership Drive using the FB Stars Program as a component. The above link can be used to purchase stars

16/10/2025

St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Writing on the back says "1942." (Photo in Whitney Collection at BHC)

16/10/2025

A 1935 photo of the "Great Chicken Bridge" aka The Huey Long Bridge over the Mississippi River at New Orleans being constructed. (A La DOTD photo donated to Nicholls State University Archives by Wayne Oncale)

16/10/2025

1935 Ben Shahn photo of the Fortuno Family of Hammond, Louisiana's bread oven. (Library of Congress)

16/10/2025

A Fourth of July parade in 1933 in New Iberia, Louisiana. (Photo sent to BHC courtesy of Lloyd Guiberteau)

14/10/2025

Prominent photographer Frances Benjamin Johnson in 1938. She produced extensive photos capturing places and people in America (many in Louisiana) as part of a WPA project. Her photos are archived at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Besides creating jobs for blue collars workers in America, these projects also addressed putting people employed in culture and the arts back into the workforce after the trauma of the Great Depression.

14/10/2025

1890 photo from Baton Rouge, showing Jackson girls with their suitors. (From the Baton Rouge Digital Library, sent to us courtesy of Katie Simmons.) Note the fence in the background as belonging to the state capitol building.

14/10/2025

An 1866 sketch reported to depict St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. (La Place Librarie in Paris)

14/10/2025

Speaking of Chester's Cypress Inn and their famous sign on the wall... Thanks to Ben and Mollie Borne for sharing this one !