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    Date: 1/27/97
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  18

SLU'S "PINEY WOODS PEOPLE" EXHIBIT TRAVELING TO LIVINGSTON PARISH
     HAMMOND -- "Piney Woods People," the Southeastern Louisiana University Center for
Regional Studies' renowned photographic exhibit depicting life in the turn-of-the-century heyday of 
area's  lumber industry, will be displayed during February in Livingston, La.
     "The Piney Woods People: Pioneers on the Lumber Frontier of Southeast Louisiana," 144
photographs printed from the original glass negatives of A.L. Blush, will be shown at the Livingston
Parish Library, 13986 Florida Blvd, in Livingston. The exhibit, on loan from SLU's Center for
Regional Studies, is sponsored by the Livingston-Doyle Cultural Association, the Lonesome Hurst
Rural Life Farm, the Livingston Parish Historical Museum and Poole Lumber Company. It was
coordinated by Rod Miller, a student in the university's Cultural Resource Management program.
     An opening reception is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the library.
     The "Piney Woods People" photographs were taken by Arch Lee Blush between 1904-1910.
His approximately 600 glass negatives were given to the Center for Regional Studies in 1980 by John
Berlin of Covington. The Center received a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
to select photos from the entire group and have 144 printed by a professional in antique photography,
Ray Kutos.
     The mounted and framed prints were first exhibit in Southeastern's Clark Hall Gallery in
1982. Since then, the show has traveled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. 
     "Piney Woods People" is considered a major contribution to the social documentation of
everyday life in southeast Louisiana in the early 1900s. 
     For additional information, call the Center for Regional Studies at 549-2151 or Rod Miller at
542-4200.
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