The library will be CLOSED for Winter Break from Saturday, Dec. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 5.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Fri, 01/19/2024 - 10:16am
This week we will be highlighting Collection 218, Amanda S. Hanks collection.
Amanda Hanks was an educator in Vermilion Parish for 43 years. She began her teaching career in 1934 in a two-room schoolhouse. She also wrote on the local history of southern Vermilion Parish.
She authored Louisiana Paradise: The Cheniers and Wetlands of Southwest Louisiana (1988), Cessac Bayou Delights: A Cookbook and Historical Reviews (1988), some children’s books, and she contributed to History of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana (1983). She also edited the Kaplan Sentinel Newsletter using the pseudonym, Alice Ash.
This collection contains personal items from a scrapbook - mainly clippings and photographs. It also contains 3 years of the Kaplan Sentinel Newsletter.
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