Cane River Creole National Historical Park - News Releases (U.S. National Park Service)

Cane River Creole National Historical Park and the Louisiana Office of State Parks Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Office of the Lieutenant Governor invite you to find out...

What are we saying?

Discovering How People of African Descent

are Interpreted at Louisiana Plantation Sites

May 2-3, 2008

LSU Rural Life Museum, Baton Rouge LA

Renowned speakers and facilitators will be featured at the two-day event, including:

Dr. John Michael Vlach, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at George Washington University and author of Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery

Dr. Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums

Dr. Harvey Bakari, Director of African American Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative, attendance at the symposium is free.

For more information, contact Peggy Scherbaum at (318) 356-8441 x200 or peggy_scherbaum@nps.gov

NPS photo by Peggy Scherbaum

The Youth Conservations Corps complete various tasks at Cane River Creole National Historical Park each summer.

The Youth Conservation Corps(YCC) completes another summer at the park. The YCC completed seven weeks. The most important objective of the YCC is to take young adults from different social, economic, racial, cultural and gender backgrounds and place them in an environment where they can cultivate work, social, and educational skills.

The main house at Oakland Plantation is now open for tours. The main house has been closed for the past two years due to historic preservation work. Now that the work is complete the house will be a part of the ranger guided 1:00 p.m. tour.