Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Ouachita Parish Public Library

  • Talking Headstones: Louisa Lamy McGuire

    The final video is of Cathy Airhart Webb playing Louisa Lamy McGuire. She has left us since then and now runs her own local theater!

  • Ouachita Parish Library Summer Reading certificate

    OPPL Summer Reading program just finished up over the weekend. On a related note, I found this copy of a summer reading certificate from 1953 in my files yesterday. I…

  • Ouachita Parish Public Library

    Did you ever wonder why the Main Branch Library on 18th street has a Stubbs Avenue address? When the building was first built in 1958, it’s entrance faced Stubbs Avenue.…

  • Miss Frances Flanders

    The above photo is another one from the collection of the Ouachita Parish Public Library. It shows Library Director Frances Flanders reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to a…

  • Ouachita Parish Public Library

    The above photo was taken probably in the 1940’s in front of the former home of Anna Ruth Meyer. She had donated it to the city of Monroe for use…

  • Anna Ruth Slade Meyer: The Mother of Monroe’s Public Library System

    The above painting hangs in the Anna Meyer branch of the Ouachita Parish Public Library. It was created from an actual photo of Anna currently housed in the Library’s collection.…

  • The Lamy Family

    I wrote this for LA Road Trips back in 2011:             Everyone is familiar with Lamy Lane and Louisville Avenue in Monroe, but very few know anything about the family…

  • Ouachita Parish Public Library is much older than we think!

    Last week, while researching the old Monroe City High School, I stumbled across this article in the New Orleans Times-Democrat.  I knew that Louisa Lamy McGuire had donated her husband’s…

  • Gardenia the Library Cat

    Back in 2012, I wrote the following article about Gardenia the library cat for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine. In this day and age, when so many are allergic to cats,…