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Interested in local art, authors, regional food, live music and activities for the entire families?
Look no further than the “Art Under the Oaks” celebration April 19 at the Edward Douglass White Historic Site north of Thibodaux.
At booths on the historic site’s grounds, artists in several media will sell their wares, as will several regional authors, event chairwoman Aleta Leckelt said.
The lineup reads like a “Who’s Who” in the local art scene: folk art by Alvin Batiste; oil paintings by Diane Duplantis, Mamie Braud, Dolores Legendre, Nancy Ackman, Denis Gaubert, Sharlene Dufrene, Darlene Eschete and Cajun oil portraits and religious works by Billy Ledet; photography by Ed and Angela Hammerli, Dennis Forbes and photo art by Danny Foret Jr.; prints and paintings by Susan Hoffman, Barbara Brown, Ellen McCord, Helen Allen and Lorraine Martinez; mosaics by Marty Ayo; jewelry by Evelyn Schroeder; embroidered linens by Fran Middleton; and carvings by C.J. Knobloch and Randy LaPririe. The painting and jewelry of Schriever’s Recreation art class and senior citizens will also be on sale.
Among the authors are Juliet Henry, who wrote “In the Shadow of the Trade Winds – Voisin’s Story”; C.J. Christ, author of “World War II in the Gulf of Mexico”; and Woody Falgoust, author of “Cajun Mariners.”
More artists and authors are likely to enter the event, Leckelt said.
The St. James Choir, guitarist Bill Welker, Stacy’s Dance Studio, the Will Robichaux’s German Band and the New Orleans Riverside Jazz Band are the day’s entertainers.
There will be antique automobiles and an antique tractor at the site and the Thibodaux Service League will sell T-shirts, fudge and cookies. Other food will also be available.
For the young ones, expect face painting, blow art, leaf painting, picture frame art and games. There’s also an instrument petting zoo, staged by music majors at Nicholls State University.
Museum staff will conduct free tours of the historic house throughout the day.
Admission to the festival – open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. – is free.
Proceeds from the event will go toward restoring and building an equipped kitchen, garden and cistern to their original state when late U.S. Supreme Court Justice White’s estate was built in 1824.
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