Event: 10th Annual Gaines Lecture Series

Join us on Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. as we discuss the history of Pointe Coupee Parish and how that history inspired the literary and life works of Dr. Ernest J. Gaines.

Dr. Angelique Bergeron, Executive Director of West Baton Rouge Musem, and Cheylon Woods, Head and Archivist of the Ernest J. Gaines Center, will examine the impact of hidden histories told through fiction and art, and learn about community members who strove to make improve the lives of the people of Pointe Coupee Parish.

The lecture will be held in the Ernest J. Gaines Center Hallway, 3rd floor.