On the Way to the Conference

I have one more meeting tomorrow that is pretty important to me and then am all involved with my trip to the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference. I present in Mobile, Alabama on the 14th. My topic is “Emerging Views: Reemergence of American Identity in Postwar Acadiana and the SONJ Documentary Projects.” I am glad to have the opportunity to make the presentation.

Pieces from Acadian Museum archives not really included in my book but showing the richness of new information coming in…

This is a glimpse of how the black and white film was presented to the world. The local papers ran black and white promotional and reporting spreads.

Zachary Richard Acadian humanist rightly honored

The Acadian Miracle by Dudley Leblanc is fifty years old this year.

It will be a simple paper reading as part  of a three person panel. But it is the most I have gotten so far for my Emerging Views book project. My parents will be coming with me and this will be the longest I have ever stayed in this immediate area without traveling in my lifetime so far. So I am hoping the trip will be a break. in the meanwhile I am busy with and enjoying things in Abbeville and Acadiana as well as I can.

The life here can be and at times is quite rich but my own best interactions with it may well be in the past. Nonetheless, I am fully engaged in this time and hoping for success in some endeavors that are worth a little hope at least.

I hope to report on the trip and the talk over time and on the outcome of my meeting tomorrow eventually.  For now I am still preoccupied away from as frequent blogging as might otherwise be the case.