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Four miles from St. Francisville. in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, there is an imposing, three-story plantation house called Oakley, built in 1810 by James Pirrie and still inhabited by his descendants. There, in the summer of 1821, a 35-year-old wandering painter named John James Audubon arrived to teach French and painting to 16-year-old Eliza Pirrie. It was almost his first good fortune. He got $60 a month, had his afternoons free, could study to his heart's content the varied bird life of West Feliciana...
...FELICIANA - Stark Young - Scribner ($2.50). For cool summer fiction, few readers turn to the snarling, high-pressure, melodramatic novels of the new South. But the South that Stark Young has described in River House, So Red the Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas in U. S. letters, a gracious, rainless land in which the people all seem to be kin, where liquor and food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South...
...collection of sketches dealing largely with Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas scenes and characters, Feliciana offers few surprises to readers of So Red the Rose. Sitting in an old plantation house, the author broods over the career of a dead kinsman, Cousin Micajah, who loved the girl his brother loved and joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire...
...twelve parishes in the election district, balloting was held only in nine last week. Injunctions prevented voting in the rest. In Livingston parish, masked men seized ballots at Centerville, burned them. In nine precincts of West Feliciana and Washington parishes, citizens marched to the polls, seized ballot boxes borrowed from New Orleans, dumped their contents into the street, set them afire. At St. Francisville seven boxes were emptied and spiked on the courthouse fence...
...cattle before her. She drove them into the campus of Louisiana State University and turned them over to the authorities. President James Monroe Smith of the University had announced that farm produce would be accepted in lieu of cash for tuition. She was Elena Percy, 17, of West Feliciana Parish. She wanted to be a freshman. She was accepted...