Silent Witness
Baton Rouge, 1912 Brooding over the dark stain in the center of the Persian rug, the smell of gunpowder and blood lingering in the air, thoughts of the victim bleeding…
Letter from a Confederate Prisoner of War, Captain David Ferguson Buckner
Confederate Prisoners at Fort Lookout, Maryland. From the internet Archive, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23203964 Wounded in the battles of Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, Captain David Ferguson Buckner never intended to remain…
A Forgotten Poet: Alice Lorraine Young
My Life is like the sea,Sometimes it is rough –And sometimes calm,Like the sand, I am lost in the tide. From “The Sea and Me” by Alice Young I met…
Biography of an Honorable Man: Edward Aylette Buckner, Sr.
I guess a man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able – always remembering the results will be infinitesimal…
Illustrations by Georgie Robertson Nadler 1908 – 1911
When she was only 18 years old, my grandmother, Georgie Robertson Nadler, began illustrating for Louisiana State University's Gumbo yearbook, which she continued for three years. She probably had artistic…
Who Will Be Left to Remember?
Posted on Instagram in January 2020. In January of 2020, I posted this picture on social media. The Woman in a Feather Hat, as I call it, was sketched by…