The Society’s 6th
Creole Family symposium will be held at the Historic New Orleans Collection on
Friday October 26, 2007, 1 to 6 p.m.
The speakers will be:
--Linda Ursule Goesling of Gulfport, MS.,
on “The Three Families of Olivier de Vezin
--Jay M. Schexnayder of Convent, Louisiana, on the Schexnayder Family
--A member of the Duplantier family on the descendants of Armand Duplantier, of Magnolia Mound Plantation.
--The keynote speaker
will be Dr. William Keyse Rudolph, curator at the Dallas Texas
Museum of Art and author of the recent Vaudechamp in New Orleans.
His topic will be “Uniting Creole Families through Art.”
Reservations requested.
The available papers are: Bouligny, Charbonnet, Darby, Decuir, Dolliole, Villars Dubreuil, Livaudais, Olivier and the late Joe Logsdon's wonderful paper on The Pandely Case.
The Louisiana Historical
Society and The Historic New Orleans Collection are pleased to announce the
fourth Creole Family Symposium to be held on October 11, 2003 at the Historic
New Orleans Collection, Each year the symposium has examined the history of
three Creole families who originated in New Orleans in the 18th or early 19th
centuries. Historians of the families discuss the reasons for the persistence
of the families, their differing life styles, their education and occupation,
where they have lived, and what they bring to the present.
9:00 a.m.
Keynote address, Prof.
Thomas Klingler, "Language and Ethnicity in
Francophone Louisiana"
10:15:00 a.m.
Bryan J. Costello
on the "Darby Family"
11:15 a.m.
Greg Osborne on the
"Perrault Family"
.12:15 Box Lunch in the Patio
1:15 a.m.
Ted Martin on Francisco Bouligny
The speakers will address
the following questions:
-Does the family continue
to have an identity in New Orleans? Does the last name survive? Is there some
remaining sense of identity or family unity?
-Which family members,
male or female, can be identified as a factor that held the family together at
various times? How did they accomplish this?
-In what parts of town
did the family live through the generations? What kinds of houses did they
build or choose to live in? What was the size of the family at different times?
Where did they worship, or educate their children?
-Did the family
experience or avoid divorce, scandal, or disappearance from town? Did they
avoid or experience debilitating illnesses that might have wiped them out? Did
they move back to Europe or the Old World?
-Are there black and
white branches to some families? What were the colonial and antebellum origins
of some of the prominent free person of color families in the community?
Were they able to pass their wealth on to their children? What has happened to
them?
General Chairman of the
Symposium George A. Hero III
HOW TO ATTEND
The symposium will begin
with a keynote speech on Saturday morning, at 9:00 a.m. Immediately following, at 10:15, the first of three presentations on the
three families will begin. A lunch break will be at 12:15 and will provide time
for a general discussion of the papers. The final paper will begin at 1:15 p.m.
There will be a fee of
$25.00 per person to cover lunch and other costs. You may attend the four
sessions without the lunch for $15.00.
Reservations should be
made by sending the appropriate sum to the: Louisiana Historical Society, 5801
St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70115. Attendance is limited to 100.
Make checks payable to
Louisiana Historical
Society.
E-mail: wdr@cox.net
Keynote speaker:
Professor Thomas Klingler is a linguist specializing in Francophone
linguistics, and Creole studies. He offers courses at Tulane University on
Louisiana related topics, including Field Research on French in Louisiana. The
talk will explore the linguistic and ethnic diversity of Louisiana
French-speaking populations and the complex use of labels such an "Cajun", "Creole", and
"French" as applied to languages and ethnic groups.
Bryan Costello is the
author of 13 books and is the President of Le Cercle Historique New Roads La and an 11th generation Pointe Coupeean. He will address many of the myths and he
uncovers many previously unpublished aspects of Louisiana Creole families.
Ted Martin is an attorney
in New Orleans. He is a 7 th generation descendent of
Francisco Bouligny, and will draw on his father,
Fontaine Martin's, A history of the Bouligny Family and Allied Families.
Greg Osborn is a New
Orleans Public Library archivist. He is a historian who discovered through his
research that he is a relative of Homer Plessy and
wrote a Principal's Guide to Dealing With At‑Risk
Students.