Joseph and Katy talk about what we call “the Lobel-Mahy notebook.” It is indeed a correspondence book - a sort of outbox - written by hand in French by Ivan de Lobel-Mahy, Laura's uncle by marriage. In this notebook, de Lobel-Mahy details the recipients, dates and content of the letters sent to his various friends, relations and acquaintances. The two small excerpts, the images of which you can see on our website at https://www.lauraplantation.com/news/post/podcast-s1-e10, give us a window into all sorts of details about family, social, and political life in October 1876.

Saison 1, Épisode 10 : Le Cahier de Lobel-Mahy (résumé en français)

Laura Plantation provides a cultural experience unlike any other in the United States. Explore the rigors of 200 years of daily life, along with the sobering experience of slavery as it happened at one historic site on the banks of the Mississippi River in the middle of New Orleans plantation country. In this podcast, Joseph Dunn, director of public relations and marketing, will be your guide into the Creole world, offering you compelling stories of the people who lived, worked, and died at this unique historic site. Real History. About real people.