Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America

Baseball, soccer, hockey, bowling, kickball, surfing. For more than a hundred years, sports have reflected the trials and triumphs of the American experience and helped shape the national character. Whether it is professional sports or those played on the collegiate or scholastic level, amateur sports or sports played by kids on the local playground, sports are everywhere in America. The Abita Springs Trailhead Museum, in cooperation with Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, hosts an exhibit that sports history buffs will want to visit: Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, on display at the museum from November 19—November 1.  trailheadmuseum.org.