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From: "Jo Branch" <>
Subject: Link
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:18:2 -0500

The message below was to me concerning Jackson Parish, but Winn Parish is
also listed. I'll be adding a link to this site.

===
Jo Branch,
>
> We would like to call your attention to our new website,
> www.catharinecole.com, dedicated to the writings of Martha R. Field, who
> wrote under the pen name Catharine Cole for the New Orleans Picayune from
> 1881 to 1894. She was the first woman staffer for the paper and edited its
> women's page and wrote a weekly column on women's topics, fiction, and
> particularly on travel in Louisiana.
>
> She traveled through virtually every parish in Louisiana by horse and
> buggy, writing about what and who she saw in a brilliant, imagistic prose.
> In her day, she was a celebrity writer, known throughout the South, but is
> now largely forgotten.
>
> One of the columns online is her trip to Jackson Parish.
>
> We hope to revive interest in her through our website and a forthcoming
> collection of her travel pieces. We invite you to take a look at
> catharinecole.com, and if you think its warranted perhaps include a link
on
> your website.
>
> Our regards,
>
> Joan and Jack McLaughlin



--- Jo (Castleberry) Branch,
LA State Asst. File Manager
Cameron Par. Coordinator & File Manager
Catahoula Par. File Manager
Jackson Par. File Manager
Winn Par. File Manager
Castleberry GenConnect & Mailing
Newell GenConnect
Tozer/Tozier GenConnect & Mailing
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jojr/home.htm

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