Shadows Exhibit Opening
The Shadows-on-the-Teche and First Horizon Bank hosted an opening of four brand new exhibits at the Shadows Visitor Center (320 E. Main Street, New Iberia). Tickets to attend the opening included a year-long membership in the Friends of the Shadows.
Opening festivities included light catering and a credit bar* for the Shadows Old Fashioned.
For the year prior, staff at the Shadows worked on researching, writing, designing, and producing new exhibits that:
provide an overview of national, state, and local history from the Antebellum to the Jim Crow period;
showcase artifacts found onsite during archaeological digs;
highlight the men and women who worked for William Weeks Hall, the last private owner of the Shadows;
and share an inside look of William Weeks Hall as an eccentric artist and gay preservationist.
Funding for the exhibits was provided by a grant from the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area with matching funds from the Marder-Vaughn Center for Interpretation and Education at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
