In early 1983 I worked as editor of the Bienville Democrat, a weekly newspaper in Arcadia, LA. That is halfway between Ruston and Shreveport, LA, so it was a long way from Covington, but pretty much the same small town newspaper type goings-on.
One thing of interest that year was a request of photographs for photographs of the area to put in the Louisiana section of the 1984 Worlds Fair that was to take place in New Orleans. I took over a dozen photographs and submitted them to the Bienville Parish Tourist Commission. I was told they were put on display at the World's Fair, but I had to take their word for it, since I never went to the World's Fair myself.
Here is one of the photographs, this one showing the Arcadia downtown area. Arcadia's main claim to fame was that it was the town where the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde, the bank robbers, were taken after they were shot on the highway going to Gibsland a few miles west. They even made a movie about that recently.
Arcadia is a great little town and I enjoyed living there, even though one winter it was so cold for so long that all my water pipes froze solid and the entire house had to be re-plumbed. I do remember playing host to some friends of mine from Covington when they came to the area for some deer hunting, and the extreme cold chased them out of their tents in the woods back into civilization. They gave me a call, and I said, come on over, the heaters are on.
