Mar - Apr 2012 - St. Francisville, La.

If you have trouble viewing the newsletter below, go to http://www.stfrancisville.us/info-sources/friends-of-st-francisville     Spring blooms beckon Audubon Pilgrims to St. Francisville, LA by Anne Butler The forty-first annual Audubon Pilgrimage March 16, 17 and 18, 2012, celebrates a southern spring in St. Francisville, the glorious garden spot of Louisiana's English Plantation Country. For over four decades the sponsoring West Feliciana Historical Society has thrown open the doors of significant historic structures to commemorate artist-naturalist John James Audubon's stay as he painted a number of his famous bird folios, and 2012, being the 200th anniversary of Louisiana statehood, promises to be a spectacular tour. Full Story... APPROACH TO NEW AUDUBON BRIDGE BETWEEN ST. FRANCISVILLE AND NEW ROADS SALUTES TWO GENERALS by Anne Butler The historic little towns of St. Francisville and New Roads have been separated over the years by many factors: cultural and linguistic differences, landscape and crop differences, and even by the mighty Mississippi River. New Roads was French, flat, sugarcane fields. St. Francisville was traditionally Anglo, hilly, with cotton the main cash crop of the 19th century. And yet, over the years, the two communities have been inextricably bound together as well, beginning in the late 1800s when Capuchin monks from flood-prone Catholic Pointe Coupee had to cross the river to the high bluffs of St. Francisville to bury their dead. Now a beautiful new bridge, the country's longest cable-stayed structure, Full Story... Previous Articles by Anne Butler... PLANTATION COUNTRY ROMANCE:FEBRUARY IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOVERS   Full Articile EARLY TRAVELS TO ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA, TO SOME LURI DDESCRIPTION   Full Articile ST. FRANCISVILLE'S CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY, by Anne Butler   Full Articile SMITHSONIAN SHOW IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, by Anne Butler    Full Article FALL IS WELCOMED WITH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA by Anne Butler Full Articile UNIQUE WILDLIFE REFUGE IN ST. FRANCISVILLE AREA by Anne Butler Full Article ST. FRANCISVILLE AREA'S FABULOUS HISTORIC FURNISHINGS BEING INVENTORIED by Anne Butler Full Article ST. FRANCISVILLE NOTED FOR ITS UNIQUE CULINARY HISTORY by Anne Butler Full Article Above articles are available for press/promotional use only. High resolution photographs to accompany these articles are available by request. Contact Patrick Walsh by EMAIL or calling (800) 488-6502 Blue Goose Media

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