Please join us as Kevin Shannahan talks about life in North Central Louisiana during World War I.

Kevin Shanahan has been a resident of Natchitoches since 1994. A former Air Force officer, he taught for four years in Red River Parish with the Troops to Teachers program and is a recently retired state employee. Kevin is also an amateur historian with an interest in Louisiana during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras that was sparked during his time teaching in Coushatta. Kevin’s prior talks at the LSHOF and Northwest Louisiana History Museum covered topics such as the Great Depression, WWII, General Stephen Henry, Surviving Louisiana Green Book sites and the Jewish Experience in Natchitoches.

This is event is free and open to the public. Visitors are welcome to bring their lunch and eat while they listen.

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