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Choctaw descendants are preserving their history in the Heart of Louisiana.
Dave McNamara takes us out on the water in the Heart of Louisiana.
Dave McNamara details a new exhibit using military artifacts to tell one of history's darkest stories.
Dave McNamara takes a musical step back in time in the Heart of Louisiana.
A new education center gives visitors a chance to learn about South Louisiana's coast.
88-year-old Melvin “Peta” Kiff detailed how the craft helped him through a health scare.
The CCC arrived in the newly formed Kisatchie National Forest in 1933
In 2014, Dave McNamara found a special connection between a Cajun paratrooper and a French family.
Natchitoches' Front Street is home to Louisiana’s oldest general store
Leo Ortego patented a helicopter invention nearly 20 years before Igor Sikorsky's version
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The Louisiana State Arboretum spans 600 acres just outside Ville Platte
A carnivorous plant, known as the pitcher plant, thrives in the piney woods of Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest near Pitkin.
William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon among those who visited Melrose artist retreat
State park offers marsh, forest and swamp within minutes of Superdome
Picturesque church along Cane River Lake has served racially mixed congregation for decades
Lessons in Des Allemands school have continued since the 1980s
Several small waterfalls spill and cascade over the rocky landscape of Sicily Island
Treme's Petit Jazz Museum traces the birth of the art form in New Orleans
A park in Morgan City became the cinematic home of the jungle king in 1918
The town of Gueydan in Vermillion Parish has a colorful history of booze smuggling
The New Orleans Jazz Museum has a permanent Louis Armstrong exhibit
Photographers traveled from the picturesque Swiss Alps to shoot images in a Louisiana swamp
No pipelines, gas lines or oil platforms intrude upon the area
LeJeune’s Bakery has filled the Main Street of Jeanerette, Louisiana, with the comforting smell of fresh-baked bread for more than a century, and its handmade tradition shows no signs of slowing.
About 37 species of birds have been seen on the largely undisturbed island
The 26-mile line once connected St. Francisville to Woodville, Miss.
Dave McNamara explores the legend of the golden spider web wedding
A St. Tammany Parish backyard has become a favorite layover for migrating birds
Darryl Reeves continues tradition of his grandfather, a blacksmith in Donaldsonville
At 6,500 acres, Chicot State Park is Louisiana’s largest state park
In Rayne, Louisiana, frogs are everywhere — from murals to an annual Frog Festival. The “Frog Capital of the World” celebrates its history of frog exports, NASA space frogs, and a Cajun tradition of frog-catching.
New Orleans musicians were scattered and distraught after Hurricane Katrina
Largest passenger ship ever built in the US first sailed in 1952
It was the first women's college established west of the Mississippi River
The red-cockaded woodpecker was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s
The Washington Parish Watermelon Festival is July 11-13 in Franklinton
Spread across 118 acres, the center serves as a living museum of blooming roses
The LSU origin story doesn’t begin in Baton Rouge, but more than 100 miles away
Space photographers say truly dark sky is hard to find in the United States