Here in the northwest corner of Louisiana we have a few claims to fame:
The historic and splendid old Municipal Auditorium, home of the Louisiana Hayride in the late 40s and 50s, and the venue in which Elvis, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, Claude King and just about everybody else who was in country music at that time got their starts. Elvis was contracted to the Hayride for two years when he was becoming a superstar.
Forty miles away are the Civil War battlefields of Mansfield/Pleasant Hill/Sabine Cross Roads, where the Confederates halted the Union Red River Campaign under Nathaniel Banks.
Da.Bees was naming his heroes of the Alamo during the Mexican Wars in the 1840s. Well, we have the "coward of the Alamo", Moses Rose, the guy who sneaked out before the fight. He settled in a small community about a mile from my old homeplace. My dad showed me the old abandoned, grown-up cemetery where he was buried when I was just a lad---only we didn't know then that Moses Rose was buried there.
Fifty miles away is Toledo Lake, one of the largest man-made lakes.
Sixty miles away is the beautiful town of Natchitoches, established by the French in the 1740s, the oldest town in the Louisiana Purchase. It has a lot of the flavor of the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Ninety miles away is Fort Polk, a place fondly remembered by many Army recruits, myself included.
This entire area from Texas into Louisiana was peppered with debris from the space shuttle that came apart on re-entry.
And about 65-70 miles away is the farm of James and Nancy Howell!!!
Our town is loaded up with casino boats berthed on the Red River, and they attract a lot of famous entertainers. A lot of movies are filmed here, including one opening next month, "Olympus has Fallen". Barksdale Air Force, home of the B-52, is here.
Some of the famous people from here are Terry Bradshaw, Karl Malone, Robert Parish, Hal Sutton, David Toms. Claude King (Wolverton Mountain, etc.) still lives here about two miles from me, as does James Burton, long-time guitar picker for Elvis.
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