re: Louisiana History

I've always liked Mark Twain and pretty much anything that has to do with Louisiana, so for me it has to be the old capitol bldg that he called "the monstrosity on the Mississippi" because of its architecture.

Also - for years after the event, there were pencils stuck in the ceiling of the current capitol bldg where someone didn't want a bill to pass a vote, so they went into the chambers and threw all the pencils at the desks up to stick into the ceiling to prevent anyone from being able to check off their vote.

Similar thing with the bullet holes in the walls of the capitol bldg from the assassination of Huey :Long.

A whole lot of the more entertaining history of Louisiana revolves around the politics for sure.