A good local history is an excellent and agreeable thing. It
pleases on two counts. It satisfies the curiosity of the
inhabitants of a region, whether newcomers or old settlers,
especially if no adequate history had existed before. It dispels
myths, corrects old wives' tales. And, if the history is
first-rate, it goes beyond a factual account of persons and places,
the particularities of a region, and shows the significance of
these human happenings in a larger scheme of things, in this case
the emergence of a new nation. Ellis's history succeeds on both
counts. It is a delightful and authoritative account of lore which
not even St. Tammanyites may have heard of. Did you know, for
example, that there was once a flourishing wine industry in St.
Tammany Parish? That local vineyards produced excellent red and
white wines, the red from Concord grapes, the white from Herbemont?
Did you know that in 1891 a rice crop of 50,000 barrels was
harvested, half the entire output of South Carolina? . . . Ellis
has rendered this pleasant and authoritative history in a graceful
and lively style and with a genuine affection for the people he
writes about. Walker Percy From the Foreword
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