Louisiana Creole Voices: Preserving Recordings of Descendants of Enslaved People Along the Mississippi River

French professor Margaret Marshall, Thomas Klingler, and Nathan Wendt will host a discussion at the LSU Rural Life Museum. Marshall and Klingler have digitized two hundred cassettes, recorded for the Dictionary of Louisiana Creole in the 1980s and 1990s at the Center for Louisiana Studies. The two will discuss their work on the project as well as the historic, linguistic, and social significance of the Vacherie and Pointe Coupée varieties of Louisiana Creole. 10 am. Attend in-person or register for the Zoom event on the Rural Life Museum's Facebook page.