NEW ORLEANS CITY GUIDE
Presentation by historian Lawrence N. Powell
Thursday, May 21, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Octavia Books
513 Octavia Street
504.899.7323
gkdarby@earthlink.net

Please join us for a presentation and signing with historian Larry
Powell who penned the introduction to the just reissued New Orleans
City Guide.

The Federal Writers' Project was established in 1935 as part of
Federal #1, a program to provide work relief for artists and
professionals under the Works Progress Administration. During the next
eight years, the project produced over a thousand books and pamphlets
on local history, folkways, and culture, in addition to the
multi-volume American Guide Series. The Louisiana project, whose
publications included books on both New Orleans and the whole state,
was directed by novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, author of Fabulous
New Orleans and Children of Strangers. He was one of only four state
project directors to remain in office for the duration of the Federal
Writers' Project itself.