Dave McNamara
Updated: Nov. 26, 2023 at 6:49 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
Fall is a time when nature enthusiasts head to the northeast or the mountains to experience brilliant fall colors. But more photographers and nature lovers are discovering a late autumn treat in Louisiana cypress forests and swamps.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2023 at 10:54 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Louisiana’s new poet Laureate gets inspiration from the people, places and stormy weather of the bayou state.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2023 at 9:27 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A Metairie man who has already passed the age of 100 reveals what he thinks is his secret to living a long life.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2023 at 8:00 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
It’s not that unusual to see an alligator here in Louisiana.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2023 at 5:42 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A lot of state parks have trails for hiking, biking and even horseback riding.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:33 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
It never happened before in the history of Harvard University.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2023 at 8:53 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
As the forest service works to restore Louisiana’s Longleaf Pine habitat, it’s also bringing in more snakes.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2023 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
It’s a different kind of musical jam session in south Louisiana.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2023 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A Rapides Parish man clings to the traditions of his French ancestors for making duck calls and the other necessities of duck hunting.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2023 at 10:33 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Archaeologists digging in Louisiana’s Kisatchie national forest are finding artifacts from native people who were living in the area during the ice age. It’s among the oldest known inhabitants of our state.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2023 at 6:57 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
After major restoration work, Tiny Queen Bess Island along the Louisiana coast is thriving today as a major nesting area for the brown pelican.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2023 at 8:36 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Ardoin’s life went from stardom to tragedy.
Updated: May. 28, 2023 at 7:25 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Duck carving began out of necessity as a way to make wooden decoys for hunting. But in the last couple of generations, it has turned into works of fine art.
Updated: May. 21, 2023 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
She may have been a woman ahead of her time.
Updated: May. 14, 2023 at 3:53 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Louisiana’s Atchafalaya swamp is a critical floodway for the Mississippi River, and it’s also been impacted by the timber and oil industries.
Updated: May. 7, 2023 at 7:15 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
The town of Bunkie, Louisiana, has a one-of-a kind name. There is no other “Bunkie” anywhere in the United States.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2023 at 2:50 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
At a time when the US Army was still segregated, an all-Black tank battalion was created in Louisiana. The unit was called the “Black Panthers.”
Updated: Apr. 23, 2023 at 10:55 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A new memorial was unveiled in the small north Louisiana town of Colfax.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2023 at 4:07 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
For a Louisiana campground, Valentine Lake is a bit on the primitive side, but this secluded campground on a quiet lake is a real beauty.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2023 at 3:04 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
This is the time of year when as many as two billion birds are making their annual migration across the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2023 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
When was the last time you sat down and wrote a letter with pen and ink?
Updated: Mar. 26, 2023 at 11:16 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Tens of thousands of years ago, the landscape of Louisiana was drastically different.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2023 at 3:23 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Architects who are putting together plans to renovate the historic St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans are learning a few lessons from the fire-damaged Notre Dame in Paris.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2023 at 10:39 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
For much of the last century, people who were diagnosed with Leprosy or Hansen’s disease were required to stay at a hospital in Carville, Louisiana.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2023 at 10:44 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
An avid fisherman and duck hunter from the bayou-side town of Galliano has created a massive private collection of cajun history.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2023 at 10:38 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
It would have been catastrophic when it slammed into Louisiana more than ten-thousand years ago.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2023 at 10:44 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
Once each month, some of the top musicians in the Lafayette area get together for a jam and benefit concert.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 6:30 AM CST
|By Dave McNamara
A group of little-known world war two ammunition bunkers in belle chase house the largest collection of fish in the world.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 6:37 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
The city of Thibodaux celebrates its Cajun heritage and music in twice-a-month jam sessions, and this month, the music and dancing took on the look of Mardi Gras.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2023 at 9:01 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
Living in the South, you can see some rather impressive live oak trees. There is actually a Live Oak Society that keeps track of the biggest of those trees.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2023 at 7:58 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
An old house that has survived 130 years of hurricanes in southeast Louisiana is getting a facelift and a new home.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2023 at 7:16 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
A lot of us would probably call the mosquito the state insect, but it’s actually the honey bee.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2022 at 11:15 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
One of the most successful coaches in football hails from Grambling State University in north Louisiana.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2022 at 5:17 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
Bluegrass music enthusiasts gather once a month at the old train depot in the west-central Louisiana town of Deridder for a jam session.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2022 at 11:11 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
A small western Louisiana town was once part of a no man’s land, an area with no government rule that attracted outlaws.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2022 at 3:08 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
Students at one Louisiana university are able to study Cajun fiddle, the accordion, and even learn how to sing Cajun French songs, and get a degree in it. It’s called ‘traditional music.’
Updated: Nov. 20, 2022 at 11:35 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
A grassroots art project is taking quilts from the bedroom and turning them into painted displays on homes and businesses.
Updated: Nov. 13, 2022 at 10:37 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
It’s one of those mornings that just begs you to spend time outdoors.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2022 at 11:09 PM CST
|By Dave McNamara
The site of a century-old levee break in St. Bernard Parish is now an art gallery.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 7:02 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A two-century-old historic home preserves some of the early history along Bayou St. John before New Orleans was established as a city.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2022 at 3:49 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
It’s not only the state’s highest court, but the century-old Louisiana Supreme Court building in the french quarter is also a museum and public law library.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2022 at 10:42 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
It may not be the first place you think of to experience a cajun Fais Do Do, but an uptown New Orleans music club has been putting on the cajun dances for more than three decades.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2022 at 11:32 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian settlers.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2022 at 11:08 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
A more than two-century-old house in LaPlace has an amazingly diverse history.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
The birthplace of jazz legend Kid Ory in LaPlace also was the scene of a rebellion by enslaved people forced into plantation work.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2022 at 11:03 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Once a month, Jam at the West Baton Rouge Parish Museum in Port Allen features what they call ‘old time music.’
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 11:14 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
It’s a complex of ancient mounds, hidden in the woods of north Louisiana, south of Monroe known as “Watson Brake."
Updated: Sep. 4, 2022 at 11:03 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
If you want to experience a farmers market with a big dose of cajun music and culture, then you need to head to Lafayette.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2022 at 3:19 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
Cypremort Point State Park is one of the few beaches located in southern Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a favorite for area residents looking to spend a day at the beach.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2022 at 8:52 PM CDT
|By Dave McNamara
There are very few of the old Louisiana dance halls still standing. But in the town of Breaux Bridge, you can still kick up a little dust on the dance floor to the sound of live cajun and zydeco music.