Cane River Bohemia Cammie Henry and Her Circle at Melrose Plantation

Patricia Austin Becker, "Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and Her Circle at Melrose Plantation"
English | ISBN: 080716982X | 2018 | 240 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, was home to many notable women, including freedwoman and entrepreneur Marie Thérèse Coincoin and artist Clementine Hunter. Among that influential group, Cammie Henry, the mistress of Melrose during the first half of the twentieth century, stands out as someone who influenced the plantation’s legacy in dramatic and memorable ways. In