Rachel is a former SGA President and Chief Justice who is a double-major in Political Science and History.
John Laudun, English professor and folklorist, published The Amazing Crawfish Boat through University Press of Mississippi in Spring of 2016.
Fri, 05/20/2016 - 8:21amIn any given year, the Louisiana crawfish harvest tops 50,000 tons. The Amazing Crawfish Boat chronicles the development of an amphibious boat that transformed the Louisiana prairies into alternating fields of aquaculture and agriculture. In seeking to understand how such a machine came into being, John Laudun describes the ideas and traditions that have long been a part of the Louisiana landscape and how they converged at a particular moment in time to create a new economic opportunity for both the rice farmers who used them and the fabricators who made them.
Listen the KRVS interview with the author and Judith Meriwether: http://krvs.org/post/apres-midi-april-18-2016-amazing-crawfish-boat-john...