Brought To You By LSHOF & NWLW History Museum
Event: Native American Crafts Workshop
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
800 Front Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Contact: (318) 357-2492
Please join us for a Native American crafts workshop at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum. The event will be interactive, with four Native American tradition bearers sharing their cultural knowledge.
Instructors include Rhonda Gauthier, Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb, Native American basketry and beadwork, Becky Meziere, Clifton Choctaw Tribe, applique beadwork & pine needle baskets, Alice Tyler, Clifton Choctaw Tribe, pow-wow dangle beadwork earrings, and Deborah West, Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, Native American dream catchers
This program is in partnership with the Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University. All of these tradition bearers will also participate in the 45th Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival on July 19.
This event is free and open to the public. Crafting materials provided for attendees.
Visit our FLASH Facebook page or call 318-357-2492 for more information
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Event: Lunchtime Lagniappe: North Central Louisiana in the Great War
Date: Friday, July 25, 2025
Time: 12:15-12:45 p.m.
Location: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
800 Front Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Contact: (318) 357-2492
Please join us as Kevin Shannahan talks about life in North Central Louisiana during World War I.
Kevin Shanahan has been a resident of Natchitoches since 1994. A former Air Force officer, he taught for four years in Red River Parish with the Troops to Teachers program and is a recently retired state employee. Kevin is also an amateur historian with an interest in Louisiana during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras that was sparked during his time teaching in Coushatta. Kevin’s prior talks at the LSHOF and Northwest Louisiana History Museum covered topics such as the Great Depression, WWII, General Stephen Henry, Surviving Louisiana Green Book sites and the Jewish Experience in Natchitoches.
This is event is free and open to the public. Visitors are welcome to bring their lunch and eat while they listen.
Visit our FLASH Facebook page or call 318-357-2492 for more information.
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Event: “Beyond the Shadows of the Cane River” book release and program with author Jesse Poole
Date: Friday, July 25, 2025
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Location: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
800 Front Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Contact: (318) 357-2492
5:00pm: Cocktails and appetizers provided by FLASH. Craft beer donated by Flying Tiger Brewery.
5:30pm: Please join us at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum as entrepreneur, author, and photographer Jesse Poole releases his latest book “Beyond the Shadows of the Cane River”. This deeply personal memoir reflects on grief, travel, photography, and survival, all framed through the lens of Poole’s experiences growing up in Natchitoches and chasing light across the country. The book release and signing includes an artist talk and Q & A discussing the creative process and the deeper meaning behind the memoir. A selection of large-format prints from the book and related travels will also be on display. Books will be available for purchase.
$10 adults, $5 students, seniors, military families and free for current FLASH members. Tickets and FLASH memberships will be available at the door payable by cash, check, or Venmo.
Visit our FLASH Facebook page or call 318-357-2492 for more information
