“Sweet Baton Rouge, my Baton Rouge.” Its a place with so much culture and history. I was born a raised there.
I love it.
I went home for Thanksgiving and thought I would (to some degree) document in pictures my hometown. I want to share with my daughter a little something about me. I wish cameras were more available when my parents were growing up. I would love to see how things were in their time. This was a very fun and sad venture. Some of the places I visited I could see myself there again so many years ago. I could smell my kindergarten classroom and feel the cool air inside of Winbush’s corner store across from my elementary school. I could see myself, a little kid, running across the school grounds at recess. It brought back some really wonderful memories. Some I wish I could relive for just a day. Oh well. I have some great stories to tell her when she’s older.
This is just the beginning. I hope to add to this collection of images each time I go back. I’ll also continue documenting Gloucester, UK, my wife’s hometown. Stay tuned for some of those images.
[caption id="attachment_1169" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="I was born in a hospital across this lake"]
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1122" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Louisiana State Capitol - Richard Pryor did a scene in this very spot in \'\'The Toy\'\' "]
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1173" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="State Capitol Building"]
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[caption id="attachment_1127" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="The Kingfish - The first US senator to be assassinated."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_1126" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Visual depiction of Huey P Long\'s Assassination."]
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1172" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Senator Huey Pierce Long"]
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1125" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Louisiana State House of Representatives"]
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1124" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Louisiana State Senate Chambers"]
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[caption id="attachment_1132" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="View of downtown Baton Rouge from the steps of the State Capitol"]
[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1133" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Another view of downtown Baton Rouge from the Mississippi river"]
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[caption id="attachment_1135" align="aligncenter" width="900" caption="Such a Louisiana name!!! Pronounced Boo'-dro and Ti'-bah-doe"]
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