This Month In Bossier Parish History

 November: Through The Years

Nov. 1, 2020: Happy National Author's Day!

Bossier Parish has some amazing authors! 

All of the mentioned authors' lives, lived or is affiliated within the parish of Bossier. Their books are also available for check-out or reference at the Bossier Parish Libraries.

* Gypsy Damaris Boston                                                                

 

Books:

    · Pink Hair
    · Hurry before the magic ends
    · Dear Louisiana... love, Gypsy

    · Rainbow Fairies

* Clifton "Cliff" D. Cardin

Photo: 

History Center's History Day 2000.  Clifton D. Cardin & Shanna Faulk

2000.056.018  

           

 

Books: 

• Bossier Parish headstones : a complete inventory of all known cemeteries, family plots, and lone burials
• Bossier Parish history, 1843-1993, the first 150 years
• Bossier Parish
• Doing research in the Bossier Parish Courthouse : a guide to the resources and materials within the Bossier Parish Clerk of Courts Office in Benton, La.
• Proud to be in Bossier : a retrospective

* Arthur Lee Ford

Book: When the Whippoorwill Sang

* Taneka Fuller

Book: Taylor's Strawberry

* Marguerite Hudson

1994: Benton High School Yearbook

 

Book: Whiskey Chitto Woman

* Kay Lottinger

Books: 

• One Quirky Bird: The Roadrunner
• Have You Seen The Roadrunner
• A Squirrel Named Dave

* Adolf “Wes” Wesselhoeft

Book: Traded to the Enemy 

Nov. 13, 2020: Weekly news from 100 years ago

• The handsome new home of I.A. (Ira Austin) Gleason is near completion
• The Adner and Kingston schools were to be combined due to lack of students
• Everyone has been at the fair this past week that there hasn't been much time for entertainment
• Mr. S.W. (Samuel Whitfield) Vance will assume the management of 5,000 acre plantation near Monroe

Photo: I.A. (Ira Austin) Gleason

           1999.163.005 Davis Collection

1915-1916 Adner School, left to right (first row) Elmer Treadway, Shrell Busby, unknown, Fred Busby, Frank and Leo Stafflebach (twins), Bynum E. Murphy, Velma Treadway, and Quinton Busby; (back row) unknown, Bertha Mae Treadway, Clifton Busby, George Stephens, Jewel Busby, Marlin Busby, Murtie Rounsavall, Brytha O. Murphy, Louise Treadway, Velnia A. Murphy, and Freda Stafflebach, Elmer and                                                                                                 Velma Treadway were twins.

                                                                                             1999.020.001   Light Collection

 

C.1910’s: State Fair Midway showing signs for sideshows

1997.054.025  Findley Collection

 

Left: Samuel Whitfield Vance and Sarah (Sallie) Eliza Vance around 1861. 1998.067.021    Jennings collection

Right: Samuel Whitfield Vance and his children  Samuel Whitfield Vance, Jr. and Mary Boutwell Gilmer Vance.

1998.067.023  Jennings collection

 

Nov. 19, 1929: Gov. Long receives a letter regarding the need of another bridge across the Red River connecting Caddo and Bossier. The plans were approved and was stated that it would be free of cost to both communities. 

 C. 1931 Texas Street Bridge under construction

2006.034.010 Neil Yarborobough collection

 

Nov. 26, 2020: Happy Thanksgiving!

Please enjoy the newspaper clippings relating to Thanksgiving. 

Bossier Banner-Progress

26 Nov 1925

 

 The Times

24 Nov 1963

 

 

  Bossier Banner

  27 Nov 1930 

 

     Bossier Banner-Progress

      22 Nov 1951

Upcoming Program

Book Talk & Signing with Local Author 

Frank Boston

Frank Boston in his hometown of Ida, Louisiana

 

 Saturday, March 30, 2019

2 pm

Bossier Parish Libraries

History Center

2206 Beckett Street

Bossier City, La 71111 | 318.746.7717

www.bossierlibrary.org 

A novel of family history and geo-political saga

This chronicle begins when a French family escapes the guillotines of Paris to Prague, Bohemia in the 1800s. The story transforms into the struggle of the family's French/Czech descendant who immigrates to America and fights in the Battle of Shiloh. The story returns to the Prague Spring in 1968, a phenomenon that occurred to overthrow oppressive rule, but was followed by a new reign of terror. Finally, the book takes the reader to the streets of Tehran, Iran, where once again, revolt against a monarchy results in mayhem and violence. The book is an emotional, personal study of survival despite persecution under tyranny and, the author hopes, a cautionary tale for the days we live in.

Local Authors of Local History

HISTORY CENTER TO HOST BOOK SALE/BOOK SIGNING EVENT, "Local Authors of Local History," back by popular demand! Local and regional history and culture book sale and signing event held in conjunction with the Bossier Central Library complex open house. Light refreshments will be served.  Local authors will sign and sell their books with topics as varied as catastrophic weather events, haunted historic buildings, poems told from the varied perspectives of inhabitants at a Louisiana plantation to historic photographs of old Bossier. Call Pam Carlisle at 318-746-7717 or email pcarlisle@bossierlibrary.org for more information.

The Current List of Participating Authors. (Additional authors are anticipated and this list will be updated)

LOCAL AUTHORS OF LOCAL HISTORY August 9, 2016

Author List – Updated July 22, 2016

1.       Kevin Jones: Arcadia Press Images of America Series: Bossier City

2.       Billy Andrews: Outstanding Weather Phenomena in the Ark-La-Tex: an Incomplete History of Significant Weather Events

3.       John Andrew Prime: co-author of Arcadia Press Images of America: Barksdale Air Force Base and contributor to Shreveport Sounds in Black and White and Legendary Locals of Shreveport  with Gary D Joiner PhD

4.       Dr. Roy Phillips: Exodus from the Door of No Return

5.       Copies of The Late Col. Neill A. Yarborough’s book History of Bossier City, Louisiana from the Early Years 1833-2006 will be available for sale by the Historical Center.

6.       Gypsy Damaris Boston, with her son Frank Boston: Dear Louisiana…Love Gypsy, Hurry Before the Magic Ends,  Pink Hair,  Rainbow Fairies

7.       Kristi Cavett Jones (and possibly Jackson Cavett Sibley:  Plantations Along the Upper Red River of Louisiana

8.       Dr. Cheryl White: Historic Haunts of Shreveport, Wicked Shreveport, Historic Oakland Cemetery

9.       Katie Bickham The Belle Mar (instructor at BPCC, English and poetry)