For this episode we're sharing our conversation with Lareatha Clay, a direct descendent from the Shankleville Freedom Colony located in Newton County, one of more than 500 freedmen’s towns in Texas founded by formerly enslaved people who were emancipated after the Civil War. This conversation appeared on the most recent episode of the Bayoulands radio show.

News and information from the Shankleville HistoricalSociety is available on their website at shankleville.org and on Facebook. For more information about Freedom Colonies in Texas visit thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com.

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For this Back to Bayoulands BONUS episode, we're sharing Micah Leigh's conversation with Janis Joplin biographer Holly George-Warren, including a special introductory conversation with Tom Neal, director of the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, Texas.

Back to Bayoulands episodes will drop every 3rd Friday this year.

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For this episode we’re sharing a conversation from the latest episode of the Bayoulands radio show… between Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Lamar University Stephanie Chadwick and acclaimed artist and native Southeast Texan Evita Tezeno whose exhibition titled Piece of My Heart is on view at the Dishman Art Museum through March 8th of 2025.

You can hear the full most recent episode on Sunday, February 23rd at 5pm CST on 91.3 FM and kvlu.org.

For this episode we’re sharing Jesse Doiron’s conversation

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We are introducing a NEW bonus episode to the podcast to revisit early conversations from the podcast series. "Back to Bayoulands" episodes will drop every 3rd Friday in 2025.

This Back to Bayoulands episode features the very first episode from the podcast: Jason Miller's conversation with animator and illustrator Kelly Asbury.

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For this episode we’re sharing our conversation with Ramona Young about her research into the Redbone community of Southwest Louisiana for the most recent episode of the Bayoulands radio show.

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For this episode, we're sharing a conversation from earlier in season 8 between guest contributor Jesse Doiron shares and poet and author John Rutherford.

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For this episode we’re sharing a conversation with Katherine

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For this episode we’re sharing our visit to the Ice House Museum to speak with Susan Kilcrease about recent archeological discoveries along the Neches River. The Ice House Museum is located at 818 Earnest Ave in Silsbee. To learn more you can visit their website at icehousemuseum.org and follow them on Facebook and YouTube.

For this episode, we're sharing the first live recording for the Bayoulands series. Inspired by photographs documenting the war in Ukraine, KVLU station manager Jason Miller led a conversation with the documentary photographer and Lamar University alumnus Patrick Patterson and UlianaTrylowsky, a major gifts officer at Lamar University of Ukrainian descent.

The opinions express in this conversation do not reflect those of KVLU or Lamar University.

You can view the exhibition of photographs by Patrick Patterson titled “To Live” on view at the Dishman ArtMuseum through November 2nd. The Dishman Art Museum is located at 1030 E Lavaca St in Beaumont on the campus of Lamar University.

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