Disney Movie Eras: The Disney Renaissance This month continues a new series of blogs for fans of popular culture. Whereas in the past explorations of Walt Disney films we highlighted individual works, we will now be talking about the larger groupings of movies, and the various artistic and commercial visions sought for and achieved from…
Michoud- Genealogy of a Place
Outside the city of Slidell, Louisiana, is the Michoud Assembly Facility located in New Orleans East, where it has operated as NASA since 1961. Dr. Wernher von Braun, who was living in Huntsville, Alabama, led the effort to make the site part of NASA, as it was a large and remote facility ideal for assembling…
Understanding Cloud Storage
A brief introduction to Cloud Storage.
Bees
Bees! Bees are some of nature's most impressive, most industrious, and most successful animals. One can find most any bit of useful information on the world wide web. The information provided below will be sourced from one of our freely available databases, World Book Encyclopedia. Bees are insects from the family hymenoptera, close relatives of wasps…
The Red Book – A Genealogy Tool
Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources published by Ancestrypublishing and edited by certified genealogist Alice Eichholz, Ph.D. is a useful research tool that is found in the Genealogy collections at the Covington and Slidell libraries. The book points the family history researcher in the right direction for locating genealogical records and it follows…
Disney Movie Eras: Live-Action Films Thru 1989
Disney Movie Eras: Live Action Films Thru 1989 This month continues a new series of blogs for fans of popular culture. Whereas in the past explorations of Walt Disney films we highlighted individual works, we will now be talking about the larger groupings of movies, and the various artistic and commercial visions sought for and…
Jaws
The most famous fictional shark in the world is celebrating it's 50th birthday this year! Originally published in 1954 by Peter Benchley, Jaws is the gripping tale about a small town's struggle with a ravenous Great White shark that has decided to make its feeding ground off the coast. Police Chief Brody (Roy Schneider) teams…
Road Trips
Are you taking a vacation this summer? Are you going to be riding in a car for hours with nothing to do? Are you tired of hearing the phrase, "Are we there yet?
Disney Movie Eras: Live-Action Films Through 1979
Disney Movie Eras: Live Action Films Thru 1979 This month continues a new series of blogs for fans of popular culture. Whereas in the past explorations of Walt Disney films we highlighted individual works, we will now be talking about the larger groupings of movies, and the various artistic and commercial visions sought for and…
Let’s Go On Down to the Audubon Zoo
It might not be the most known or statistically popular attraction, but make no mistake, no place is as beloved in New Orleans as the Audubon Zoo. Originally opened in 1914, the zoo was named after New Orleans resident and noted ornithologist John James Audubon. Famous for his Birds of America, Audubon eventually settled in…
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