Looking Back: Recalling events of 1949

By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Today, we travel back in time to take a look at the events of the year 1949. •January - Miss Jean Arnot, a native of Sydney, Australia, and state librarian in New South Wales, Australia, visited the Ville Platte Library and the Ville Platte Gazette office. She said how much she liked Louisiana as it “somehow feels like home.” She was impressed with t...

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