Seattle University A.A. Lemieux Library Academic Day 2002   Dead Man Walking

Setting

	> Angola prison
	> the South
	> Louisiana
	> St. Martinville
	> Covington
	> related books and videos
	> tip of the iceberg

"About five miles from the prison I see a hand-painted sign nailed to a tree: 'Do not despair. You will soon be there.' I make a sharp S-curve in the road and see a clearing, an open sky, and the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In antebellum days three cotton plantations occupied these 18,000 acres, worked by slaves from Angola in Africa. The name Angola stuck." pg. 24Dead Man Walking

• The Angola Story: Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum at Angola.
• Tossing Away the Keys: Soundprint.org. A transcript of a recording done in Angola Prison, Angola, Louisiana. It premiered April 29, 1990 on All Things Considered.

video in Lemieux Library

• The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison
  Video-recording.
  A&E Home Video, 1998.
  HV8338 .F37 1998

The South

"'They don't call Southern states the 'Death Belt' for nothing,' Millard Says. Four states - Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, and Florida - carry out two thirds of all U.S. executions." pg. 49, Dead Man Walking

website

• "Capital punishment deeply rooted in the South": by Mike Tolson, Houston Chronicle (February 5,2001). One part from a series focusing on capital punishment in Texas.

book in Lemieux Library

• Encyclopedia of the American South
  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
  REF F209 E53 1989 (Reference Stacks)

Louisiana

• LEAP: Louisiana Electronic Assistance Program. Online source for Louisiana statistics.
• Income and Poverty Data for Louisiana. Stateline.org (To see this data choose Louisiana State information, then look for the income and poverty link at the bottom of the page.)

St. Martinville

"'He's a Cajun from St. Martinville, Louisiana,' Chava says. Which makes the murderers all the more vicious, because St. Martinville, at the center of Acadiana, is one of the friendliest, most hospitable places on earth. Here and in the surrounding towns, French- speaking people, mostly farmers and fishermen, cook good food, swap stories and recipes, and dance the two-step and the zydeco." pg. 4, Dead Man Walking

• St. Martinville, town of: Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture
• "Legend of 'Evangeline Oak' dying along with tourist attraction tree", by Mary Foster, Advocate Acadian (July 15, 2002). Located in St. Martinville, Louisiana, the Evangeline Oak is remembered in the poem by Longfellow.

Covington

"The next week I call him and get directions to his house in Covington, a small town on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain.... I turn into the driveway of a cozy- looking house surrounded by tall trees. There is a swing on the front porch. A happy enough looking house, I think, as I climb the front steps and reach for the doorbell." pg. 132, Dead Man Walking

• "Covington: Living History and Covingtons Founding Families", by Ann Gilbert (Inside Northside Magazine) February/March 2002 issue.
• Covington History from StTammany.com

Related books and videos in Lemieux Libary

• Gaines, Ernest J.
  A Lesson Before Dying
  New York: Knopf, 1994.
  PS3557 .A355 L47 1993
• Lee, Harper
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960.
  PS3562 .E353 1960
• To Kill a Mockingbird
  Video recording.
  Universal City, CA: MCA Universal Home Video, 1998.
  PN1997 .T55 1998 (Circulation Desk)

tip of the iceberg...

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