The grant will allow the Center to restore seven works by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Claude Clark, Malvin Gray Johnson, Albert Alexander Smith, Ellis Wilson, and Hale Woodruff. The Cammie G. Henry Research Center Mary Linn Wernet and Catherine Jannik spoke to the Vernon Parish Genealogical Society and to a class on tourism at the Louisiana Technical College in Minden. Jannik represented Watson Library at a meeting of the Louisiana Library Network's planned Digital Library Louisiana Purchase Collection in Baton Rouge on September 11. Focus Worldwide Catholic Network and WLAE-TV in New Orleans produced the series. New Orleans Public Library Collin Hamer has been asked to serve on the ALA History Section's Genealogy Committee.
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Melrose Plantation is located on the Cane River at the confluence of Louisiana Highways 119 and 493 - 20 miles south of Natchitoches and 40 miles north of Alexandria.