Streets on the Table Episode 2: Dr. Sherwood "Woody" Gagliano
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In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an educational component to give context to the changes presented itself. Filling the gap, public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans created projects to illuminate the work of the Street Renaming Commission.
Produced by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, Streets on the Table is a podcast that reflects on the historical relevance of both the old and new street names. Hosted by two UNO graduate students, the podcast highlights the lives and histories unrecognized in the commemorative landscape.
In the second episode, Eddie and Lauren discuss Lost Cause legacies in New Orleans and the renaming of Beauregard Avenue to honor Dr. Sherwood Gagliano.
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A photo shows two boys fishing in Bayou Gauche, in South Louisiana.
Source: National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FISHING_IN_BAYOU_GAUCHE,_IN_THE_LOUISIANA_WETLANDS_-_NARA_-_544195.jpg.
Sherwood “Woody” Gagliano, a distinguished scientist, produced groundbreaking research on Louisiana's coastal erosion and dedicated his life to advocating for its protection.
Source: New Orleans Geological Society, New Orleans Geological Society Log 61, no. 2 (August 2020), http://ocsbbs.com/content/pdf/nogslogs/2020aug/index.html.
The images show land loss between 1932 and 2011 on the Louisiana coast.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, accessed 20 June 2022, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Land_loss_in_coastal_Louisiana_since_1932_NOAA2013.jpg.
An aerial photo shows Louisiana’s wetlands. In the 1970s, Dr. Sherwood Gagliano’s studies alerted the public to wetland loss.
Source: Ryan Hagerty, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louisiana_wetlands_aerial_view.jpg.
Members of the 1893 Beauregard Monument Association, with names listed below.
Source: Beauregard Monument Association, “Beauregard Monument Association, organized in New Orleans, La., February 21st, 1893,” New Orleans, 1917, Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/19004947.
The book of the Beauregard Monument Association provides details of the process to establish the statue.
Source: Beauregard Monument Association, “Beauregard Monument Association, organized in New Orleans, La., February 21st, 1893,” New Orleans, 1917, Library of Congress, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00107328798.Streets on the Table Episode 2: Dr. Sherwood "Woody" Gagliano
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