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Next Book Project Announced:
Memoir of the River Road
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DVille Press is delighted to announce a book close to home, due out early next year. With the working title Coming of Age on the River Road, it is a memoir by Jane Goette who grew up down River Road less than a mile from Donaldsonville.
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What better press to publish it than one in her home town? Jane grew up the second of four sisters in a household with a mother who was a journalist from Wisconsin and their father a former priest and native of Donaldsonville where he was principal of the town's white public schools.
She very authentically describes an idyllic childhood increasingly marred by personal, social and political conflicts of her family in a small, segregated community in rural Louisiana during the 1950s and 1960s.
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McFerren Reading a Success
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The November 18 reading of two poets at Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans had a good turnout and was enjoyed by all. Martha McFerren read from her new collection of poems The McFerren Plot, which we published. She was joined by friend and colleague Gina Ferrara who read from her recent work. Poetry books can be hard to sell, but judging from the talents of these two New Orleanians, their poetry collections belong in every public and private library in the state! McFerren is our first writer for the River Poets series -- we look forward to publishing another two or three Louisiana poets in the new year. Here is a link to the November 18 reading video on YouTube.
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The McFerren Plot
By Martha McFerren |
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Cardy Book Illustrator
in Demand at Christmas Season
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Cardy the Cardinal Finds
a Home in Donaldsonville
By Mary Gehman with
Illustrations by Alvin Batiste
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Christmas is always a busy time for Alvin Batiste, illustrator of our children's book Cardy the Cardinal Finds a Home in Donaldsonville. Batiste's brightly colored canvases are in demand throughout the South as holiday gifts, and his Cardy book makes an ideal present for young children who can follow the cardinal and his friends as they soar over the river, the bayou and interesting buildings in-between. Now that the long-neglected historic Lemann Department Store at the foot of Railroad Avenue is being restored for retail and apartments, Batiste will perhaps think about illustrations about that for another book.
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Gehman's Article on
Tampico-N.O. Community Published
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As part of her ongoing work on a book about New Orleans Creoles of color who migrated to Mexico in the mid-to-late 19th century, Mary Gehman published an article "Forming a Community: New Orleans Creole Immigrants in Tampico, Mexico 1871" in the December 2021 issue of La Créole, an annual journal of the organization of the same name, headquartered at Xavier University. She used an 1871 census of Tampico, a port city in which many of the New Orleans people settled, to map out the proximity of each Creole family to the other and establish that the community there was as diverse as was the one in New Orleans that they had left.
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The article appears on our website at this link. Gehman is author of our books The Free People of Color of New Orleans and Women and New Orleans.
Mary Gehman with
Luisa H. Casasus,
Tampico historian
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DVille Press wishes all our friends and patrons a very merry Christmas season and a great start to the New Year! We look forward to seeing and hearing from you at our various book events in 2022. Thank you for buying local and for supporting our efforts to publish Louisiana authors and topics. Keep our titles in mind as you choose gifts throughout the year and as you add books to your own libraries.
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Murder on the Teche
By Tom Aswell
Where Writers Wrote
in New Orleans
By Angela Carll
Edwin & I
By Bob Crowley
The Free People of Color
of New Orleans
By Mary Gehman
Women and New Orleans
By Mary Gehman |
Cripple Bayou Two-Step
By Norman German
No Other World
By Norman German
A Savage Wisdom
By Norman German
Jazz Stories
By Arthur Pfister
Sir Bone Funk: Living Life
in the Key of Triumph
By Eddie Tebbe |
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