Another e-bay offer that might interest a member of the group! Item number: 290214823578 Penny T Offered is Memories of the Old Plantation Home & A Creole Family Album by Laura Locoul Gore with commentary by Norman & Sand Marmillion. This book is illustrated throughout with historic black-and-white photos. Keywords: Gore, Laura Locoul, 1861-1963; Locoul Family; Plantation Life; Louisiana; St. James Parrish; 19th Century; Creoles; Louisiana History. Please read further! CONTENTS: Preface Acknowledgements Duparc-Locoul Family Chart Memories of the Old Plantation Home in St. James Parish, Louisiana on the Right Bank of the Mississippi River and 54 Miles above New Orleans Guillaume DuParc - Nanette Prud'homme - Louis de Meziere DuParc - Flagy DuParc - Elisabeth DuParc - My Dear, Old Dad - My Mother's Family - The Civil War and After - In Sickness and In Health - School Life Begins - Our Old Home on Bourbon Street - The Laura Plantation - The Duel - Growing Up on the Plantation - Boarding School in New Orleans - Memories of Dear Old Dad - Settling Father's Estate - Old Sweet Springs, Virginia - New York - A Remnant of Former Grandeur - My Debut - Grandmother Locoul's Death - From Mourning to Mardi Gras - Best Friends - My Beau - Adieu, Louisiana A Creole Family Album Guillaume DuParc - The DuParc Habitation - Nanette Prud'homme - Louis de Meziere DuParc - Marie-Elizabeth Fanny Rucker - Eliza DuParc - Flagy Gilles DuParc - Mercelite Cortez - Elisabeth DuParc - George Raymong Locoul The Creole Plantation is a Family Business The Ante-Bellum Years George Raymond Emile Locoul Marie Elisabeth Aimee Locoul de Lobel Desiree Archinard Locoul Civil Wars: Two Houses Divided The Plantation is Reconstructed: Post War Years "The Littlest Rebel" Laura Locoul The Gore Family of St. Louis The St. Louis Years SYNOPSIS: In 1936, Laura Locoul Gore compiled an account of nearly 100 years of life on a Louisiana sugar plantation named after her: "Laura Plantation." Her manuscript, recently found, details the daily life and major events of the inhabitants, both free and slave, of her plantation. Laura's writings offer an insider's perspective into a Creole household, spanning four generations of love and greed, pride and betrayal, heroism and pettiness, violence and excess. And, her words are also an explanation as to why she rejected the traditional confines of the Creole world to become a modern American of the 20th century. PUBLISHING INFORMATION: Vacherie, LA: The Zoe Company, Inc. (2001); ISBN0-9705591-0-0; 166 Pages; Large Softcover. Illustrated. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs