Advocate photographer Travis Spradling, who worked at the Baton Rouge newspaper for 31 years, retired last week.
This collection of photos includes some of his favorites and others that document the history of Baton Rouge and the surrounding area during that time.
“There are of course some photos missing, particularly from years before The Advocate began to store its photos digitally, but this gallery is a fair attempt. My time at the Advocate has been almost exactly half of my lifetime,” he said.
“I’ll remember the many great people I worked with at this newspaper, and the countless members of the community that I covered or just met out of the blue, and I hope that what we do as newspaper photographers informs and entertains them, and helps provide a record of life in the community.”
Like most newspaper photographers, he covered both joyous occasions and incredibly sad events.
He photographed five sitting Louisiana Governors, hundreds of state legislators, four Baton Rouge mayors, six LSU football head coaches, the historic 2016 flood and more hurricanes than he’d like to remember, and wishes the community well.
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‘ChaCha,’ a four-year-old beagle-terrier mix, shakes hands with her owner, Virginia Ledesma, as they enjoy a pleasant warm day Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, after a string of days with sub-freezing temperatures in Baton Rouge, on the shore of University Lake. Ledesma, who said ‘that’s ChaCha’s only trick,’ left Baton Rouge to go back to her home country of Uruguay, but returned about two months ago to live here, after deciding she missed Baton Rouge too much.
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LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) and Tiger fans were howling with glee after the 9-6 in overtime win over Alabama at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Nov. 5, 2011.
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His swim goggles lodged in his mouth, Jonathan Sciortino, of Catholic High School gasps for air, fighting to finish the 100-yard butterfly race, Aug. 25, 2007, at a high school meet Aug. 25, 2007. He tried to swim through the ordeal, and barely finished the race, but was disqualified for a couple of infractions.
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LSU pitcher Doug Thompson throws his head back and yells with delight after getting the last ninth-inning out that clinched LSU’s 1997 NCAA Championship at the College World Series on June7, 1997. He threw several innings of relief, including getting out of a bases loaded jam against Alabama.
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LSU defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, left, celebrates with an ecstatic head coach Nick Saban after LSU’s last-second 24-2 win over Florida on Oct. 4, 2004.
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Twins Faith Williams, left, and Grace Williams, 3 1/2 years old, walk across a field in BREC’s Milford Wampold Memorial Park, holding hands while wearing identical outfits, including shirts emblazoned with the word ‘Love,’ Aug. 20, 2020. They’d been running across the field, but when Grace suddenly looked unhappy, Faith took her hand. Baton Rouge’s ‘Queen Mother’ Reven Compton, who calls her daughters ‘Princess Faith’ and ‘Princess Grace,’ said the girls are best friends, and always look out for each other.
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Kathy Rushing, left, wraps her arms around the flag that draped the casket of her son, Cpl. William ‘Jared’ Crouch, as U.S. Army Casualty Assistance Officer Master Sargeant Finn Carlton, right, offers his condolences just before Crouch’s burial, June 9, 2007 at Port Hudson National Cemetery in Zachary. Rushing’s husband James ‘Jimbo’ Rushing, Jr., who is Crouch’s step-father, is at center.
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In a photo from the ‘Bluegrass Miracle’ play, Kentucky’s Morris Lane (26) lets the ball go through his hands after it was tipped by Quentus Camby (2), Nov. 9, 2002. Earven Flowers tipped the ball last, before LSU’s Devery Henderson, in front of Leonard Burress (27), caught the ball for the game-winning touchdown with no time left on the clock for a Tigers win in Lexington, Kentucky.
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In a photo from the ‘Bluegrass Miracle’ play, Earven Flowers (32) tips the ball to LSU’s Devery Henderson, who scored the winning touchdown for LSU with no time left on the clock on Nov. 9, 2002 in Lexington, Kentucky.
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During the ‘Bluegrass Miracle’ play, LSU’s Devery Henderson (9) prepares to gather in the winning 75-yard touchdown pass, scoring with no time left on the clock after juggling a previously-tipped ball in the Tigers’ 33-30 victory over Kentucky in Lexington, Nov. 9, 2002.
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During the ‘Bluegrass Miracle’ play, LSU’s Devery Henderson (9) juggled the ball before hauling it in and sprinting past Kentucky’s Derek Tatum (21) to score the winning touchdown with no time left on the clock, Nov. 9, 2002 in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Southern University head baseball coach Roger Cador, in his new office next to his painted portrait, Feb. 25, 2015 in his 30th year as the Southern University head baseball coach with his dream of having a baseball support facility and coaches offices next to Lee-Hines Field finally come true. Cador retired in 2017, Cador completed his career at Southern with 14 SWAC titles at Southern, 11 NCAA tournament appearances, and two black national titles, in 2003 and 2005.
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LSU defensive end Rahim Alem (84) lets it all hang out, as he gleefully dances onto the field with other LSU players as time runs out in the team’s last second victory 30-24 win over Auburn, Oct. 20, 2007 in Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie (Torrence Hatch), right, gets ready under the movie lights at the downtown Baton Rouge bar Dante’s Inferno, May 7, 2006, to shoot the opening scene for a new urban movie being filmed here.
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LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) basks in the confetti-filled atmosphere of an SEC Championship and his MVP trophy, as LSU head coach Les Miles, LSU long snapper Joey Crappell (50) and other players hoist the Championship trophy behind him, Dec. 3, 2011, after beating georgia 42-10.
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LSU quarterback Matt Flynn embraces offensive coordinator Gary Crowton, right, near the entrance to the tunnel to the LSU locker room, after Flynn threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Demetrius Byrd with one second left on the game clock, snatching a 30-24 victory for LSU over Auburn on Oct. 20, 2007.
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LSU head football coach Les Miles embraces workhorse running back Jacob Hester, after the Tigers’ 21-14 win in the LSU-Tennessee SEC Championship game Dec. 1, 2007 in Atlanta, which propelled the team into the BCS national championship game Jan. 7.
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Port Allen’s Chandra Burks waves her diploma high in the air, after receiving her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, Dec. 12, 2014 at Southern University’s Fall Commencement. Southern celebrated the100th anniversary of its relocation to Scott’s Bluff, above the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge that year.
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LSU head football coach Nick Saban celebrates as he leaves the field after a 26-10 win over Alabama, Nov. 13, 2004 at Tiger Stadium.
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LSU football head coach Nick Saban lifts the BCS National Championship Trophy on Jan. 5, 2004, after the Tigers’ 21-14 victory over Oklahoma in the Nokia Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. LSU players Chad Lavalais (93), Michael Clayton (14), Corey Webster and Stephen Peterman (72) cheer.
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LSU head coach Les Miles is carried off the field by LSU Vadal Alexander (74) and Christian LaCouture, right, after the Tigers’ game against Texas A&M, Nov. 28, 2015. LSU won, 19-17, in what was projected by many as Miles’ last game at Tiger Stadium. In the days following the game, he finally got a vote of confidence, of sorts, from LSU Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva.
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Tigers Chevis Jackson, Curtis Taylor, (27) and Chad Jones break up the last Hail Mary pass for Florida in the LSU end zone, sealing the win late int he fourth quarter, Oct. 6, 2007, in Baton Rouge, La.
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Southern University’s Dominic Hunter, left, hugs his overjoyed grandmother, Mary Brown,78, of Hercules, Ca., after getting diploma for a Bachelor of Science in Sociology at the school’s Spring Commencement, also earning a medal from SU’s Honors College, May 11, 2007. She’d just gone through a four-day ordeal of problem-plagued airline travel, arriving in Baton Rouge only two hours before the start of Commencement — with no luggage and no clothes. A fast dash to buy clean clothes left her just enough time to cheer on Hunter.
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April Johnson Fleming talks about her daughter Kaylen Johnson, 24, and Kaylen’s son Kaden Johnson, 2, who were killed earlier in March by Johnson’s boyfriend. She is holding a photograph of them during an interview on March 17, 2022.
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LSU pitcher Doug Thompson throws his head back and yells with delight after recording the last out in the ninth inning ofLSU’s 1997 NCAA Championship at the College World Series on June 7, 1997. He threw several innings of relief, including getting out of a bases-loaded jam against Alabama.
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LSU tight end Richard Dickson sits on the field, stunned, moments after LSU was stopped by Kentucky on a fourth-down-and-two, sealing the Wildcats’ 43-37 triple overtime upset of #1-ranked LSU in Lexington, Kentucky, Oct. 13, 2007.
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Just after taking the Oath of Allegiance, Russian emmigrant Olga Grigoryevna Starks shoots a celebratory ‘thumbs up’ to friends and family, including her husband Cliff Starks, of Slaughter. With the Oath, she had just become a U.S. citizen at a Naturalization Ceremony Friday at U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, June 21, 2004.
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LSU head coach Les Miles waves to the Tiger Stadium crowd as it sings a ‘Happy Birthday’ to him after the LSU-Louisiana Tech football game, Nov. 10, 2007.
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Phil’s Oyster Bar owner Gus Piazza, Sr., right, braces for a playful smooch from Dr. Dave Davis, one of the ‘back room boys,’ a large and eclectic group of insiders that made Phil’s their home-away-from-home for many years. It was the last day of operations for the Baton Rouge family business Phil’s Oyster Bar, June 2, 2007. Gus Piazza Sr., who retired because of declining health, is remembered for his wide array of friends and willingness to use those connections to help people, died that Nov. 14, at age 55. Years later the restaurant was reopened on Perkins Road.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards reacts, during a press conference with law enforcement agencies including FBI, La. State Police, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and Baton Rouge Police Dept., July 18, 2016, in the wake of the July 17 fatal ambush shootings of three area law enforcement officers.
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Sue Gunter, LSU’s longtime women’s basketball head coach, before a win over Alabama, which was ranked number five, Feb. 1, 1997.
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Baton Rouge’s Sarah Everhart, left, and daughter Madeline Everhart, 10, clasp their hands in prayer while Baton Rouge Bishop Michael G. Duca prays an ‘Act of Consecration’ entrusting Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, joining bishops all over the world in the prayer for the two countries that are embroiled in armed conflict, March 25, 2022 at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge.
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Five-year-old Cade Williams of Prairieville arrived list-in-hand, for his visit with Santa Claus at the Mall of Louisiana, Dec. 15, 2005
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Professional Santa Jake (Many Santas don’t give their last names) is quite the sight, his hair and beard full of curlers at Cortana Mall’s Regis Salon as he prepares for his work day at the mall, Dec. 2, 2004.
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A masked Gov. John Bel Edwards reflects during remarks by Dr. Phyllis Mason, Chief Medical Officer for Natchitoches Regional Medical Center, at a press conference August 2, 2021, addressing Louisiana’s COVID-19 response. As confirmed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continued to surge in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards reinstituted an indoor mask mandate requiring residents to wear face coverings in schools, churches, businesses and any other public spaces.
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Wheelchair user Dorothy Brooks, 69, is lifted through three-foot-and rising floodwaters by Tangipahoa Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Thomas Wheeler, after floodwaters on Bankston Road south of Amite City surrounded the home of Brooks’ sister, Laverne Andrews, Aug. 12, 2016 during the start of what turned out to be hisoric flooding for Louisiana.
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Sgt. Thomas Wheeler, left, a Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office detective, smiles at Dorothy Brooks, 70, July 13, 2017 in front of her sister Laverne Andrews’ house just south of Amite City. It was the first time Brooks and Wheeler had seen each other since (in photo they hold) he carried the wheelchair-bound Brooks from the flooded house, on the first day of torrential rains that caused the catastrophic August 2016 flooding in central Louisiana.
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Capitol High’s Seimone Augustus, left, a future LSU and Women’s National Basketball Association star, and Donaldsonville High’s Kaisha Lymon tangle over a loose ball Feb. 6, 1999.
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LSU coaching icon Dale Brown falls back into a reclining easy chair, one of the parting gifts he was given in a post-game ceremony commemorating his 25 years as LSU head basketball coach, March 1,1997.
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LSU catcher Adrian Antonini, center, hugs winning College World Series Championship game pitcher Brett Laxton, right, after their 8-0 win over Wichita State University as other players jump on, June 12, 1993, celebrating the Tigers’ second CWS championship.
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Baton Rouge musician Henry Gray, photographed August 6, 1999 with the medal he received for being a 1998 Grammy Award nominee.
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Hans Sternberg, photographed August 20, 1998 next to piano at Maison Blanche, formerly the Goudchaux’s department store. His family owned Goudchaux’s from 1907 through 1992, and having a person who would play the piano in the department store was one of their traditions.
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Capitol High School’s Seimone Augustus, a future LSU and Women’s National Basketball Association star, in the Hall of Fame Classic vs. Donaldsonville, La., Feb. 6, 1999.
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With a towel helping him stay cool, Adrian Chinn, a worker with Zachary’s D & L Lawn Care, calls it a day after a sweaty day working in the heat on June 15, 2022, trimming grass in between headstones at Baton Rouge National Cemetery.
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Pete Rumfola, Jr. lies down, functioning as a live model for the coffin he planned be buried in, as some of his children, Peter Rumfola III, David Rumfola, Ross Rumfola, David Rumfola and Belinda Booksh take notes and measurements, Feb. 7, 2009. Pete Jr.and his children were designing and building his coffin is a way to talk to his children about death, and an activity to bring them together. He died in 2021. ORG XMIT: LABAT
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From left, Lois Holden, husband Kip Holden, Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce board chairman Jim Ellis and Chief Administrative Officer Walter Monsour look on as Holden celebrates his outright re-election, Oct. 4, 2008.
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LSU outfielder Leon Landry dives for a line drive in shallow right field, robbing Southern University hitter Romey Bracey of a hit Feb. 26, 2008.
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LSU wide receiver Russell Shepard (10) dives for the end zone pylon, as Auburn’s Chris Davis (11) and Auburn Craig Sanders (13) try to drive him out short of the goal line, in Baton Rouge, Oct. 22, 2011. Originally ruled down short of the goal line, the play was reviewed and called a touchdown in the 45-10 LSU win.
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East Baton Rouge Sherif’s deputies line up and comfort each other during the viewing of East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola at the Istrouma Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., July 23, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded July 17 by a gunman who traveled to Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police in Baton Rouge sparking nightly protests across the city.
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LSU coach Skip Bertman walksoff the field with College World Series championship game pitcher Brett Laxton, left, who pitched a complete game, giving up only three hits, and Most Valuable Player Todd Walker (12), after an 8-0 win over Wichita State at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska for the Tiger’s second CWS title, June 12, 1993.
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Water still surrounds East New Orleans houses August 31, 2005 after the flooding from Hurricane Katrina.
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Sandra Varnado (left) awards Dolores McCant, 72, a hefty trophy after McCant was crowned ‘Queen’ at the Louisiana Nursing Home Association, Region II Pageant, at Sherwood Manor Rehabilitation and Nursing Home. Varnado is activity director at Flannery Oaks Guest House, where McCant is a resident.
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LSU left guard Herman Johnson’s mother Karen Johnson shakes the noisemaker she made for her son’s high school games, (modified for LSU use) and his cousin David Young (right) of Port Allen whoops it up, as the crowd urges the Tigers during pregame warmups, Aug. 30, 1997, before playing Mississippi State.
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Jack Marucci’s big league bats, like this one made for Bosston Red Sox’s Manny Ramirez, all began with the smaller bats he began to make for Little Leaguer Gino Marucci, 10, his son. Photographed March 16, 2006 in his workshop at home, where the LSU director of athletic training used to make bats, and sometimes still designs or sands them. One of Gino’s bats is shown here.
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Frank Pitts, a sergeant-at-arms for the Louisiana State Senate and former NFL player, had his two Super Bowl Rings stolen when his house in Baton Rouge, La. was burglarized a few days earlier. He was photographed in December, 2005. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs as a wide receiver, and got the rings from Super Bowl I and IV.
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Two sheep raised by Laura Brucchaus,18, of Elton, La. sit in their pen, masquerading as zebras under fabric covers made by her grandmother, Della Brucchaus, after being sheared for the 72nd annual LSU AgCenter State Livestock Show in Gonzales, Feb. 10, 2007.
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‘All-Everything’ LSU senior defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey (72) hugs his mother Sandra and father Glenn (right) after another heart-stopping LSU game ending, a 41-34 win, Nov. 3, 2007 in Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa.
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David Dellucci, a former Baton Rouge Catholic High player who won a MLB World Series in 2001 with Arizona Diamondbacks, shows how to get down low when laying down a bunt, June 6, 2014 at Baton Rouge’s first-ever Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association ‘Legends of Youth’ free clinic for kids. ORG XMIT: BAT1406061545094635
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Westwego, La. homeowner Tanya Clark was injured, but happy to be alive on Feb. 13, 2007 after tornado struck her home. Visiting with Gov. Kathleen Blanco (right), she said she had a shoulder injury and her son had nasty cuts on face and back, after the twister struck their home on Vic A. Pitre St.
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John Allen, right, catches a jumble of green beads aimed at the big green bulls-eye target held by friend Robby Zeringue, as the and friend Gary Dickerson, left, watch the last few floats from the Hundred Oaks front yard of friend Elaine Debaun, at March 15, 2008’s Wearin’ of the Green St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Baton Rouge, La.
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Sandra Sterling, an aunt who helped raise Alton Sterling, sobs as she is helped away from his casket during visitation before the funeral service for Alton Sterling at Southern University’s F.G. Clark Center, July 15, 2016 in Baton Rouge. Sterling, 37, was fatally shot in an altercation with Baton Rouge Police officers on July 5.
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Dancing Girls Melinda Walsh, left, and Carol Spruell, right, are a splash of color and lights at the Krewe of Southdowns Mardi Gras Parade in Baton Rouge, Feb. 25, 2022. ORG XMIT: BAT2202252202017119
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This fawn, only a few days old, curls up in the woods southeast of Jackson, La., July 28, 1999, waiting for the return of its mother. For the first week or two of its life, the fawn is in its ‘hiding behavior,’ said David Moreland, Deer Study Leader for the Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries. It will stay in one place even when approached by humans, and doesn’t yet even follow its mother around.
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Kenyatta S. Williams of Vicksburg, Miss., holds her diploma aloft during graduation at Southern University Commencement, Dec. 9, 2005. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
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Advocate staff photo by Travis Spradling. Photo shot on 8/30/05. Car left on eastbound lanes of I-10 twin span between New Orleans and Slidell, with many sections of the highway collapsed into the water in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Convicted at age 17 for a rape he didn’t commit, Sullivan Walter, 53, left, holds a shirt reading ‘Justice,’ near Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, La., with (continuing from left) his brothers Corner Walter, Jr. and Byron Walter, Sr., and Innocence Project New Orleans legal director Richard Davis, just after his release, August 25, 2022. His was the longest known wrongful incarceration of a juvenile in Louisiana history, and the fifth longest in U.S. history, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. ORG XMIT: BAT2208251641372219
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Natural gas (back right) bubbles out from under floodwaters in the neighborhood next to the London Ave. Canal in New Orleans, La., as a helicopter positions a sand bag to help contain a leak in the canal Tuesday, morning, Sept. 13, 2005, after Hurricane Katrina.
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Des Allemands’ Savanna Barbee, left, and New Orleans’ Thanh-Thanh Pham, right, laugh while holding ‘photos-on-a-stick’ of Pham made by her friends to wave during LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication’s Fall Commencement diploma ceremony, after the event on Dec. 18, 2015. ORG XMIT: BAT1512181350266681
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Alabama’s Danielle Richard (19) is safe at first after a collision that separated Tiger first baseman Sandra Simmons from the ball and her glove, but Alabama couldn’t score in the inning in a 2-1 loss to LSU at Tiger ParK, La., April 26, 2013.
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On one of the game’s biggest plays, LSU defensive back Eric Reid intercepts this pass at the goal line, wrestling it away from Alabama tight end Michael Williams (89) in the fourth quarter at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Nov. 5, 2011. LSU won 9-6 in overtime.
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An officer lowers his head, and reaches out to touch the casket of fallen Baton Rouge Police officer Matthew Gerald for the last time, after a BRPD detail escorted Gerald’s casket to the burial plot after the graveside service at Louisiana National Cemetery, Friday, July 22, 2016. Gerald and two other police officers were slain July 17 in an ambush shooting in Baton Rouge that came in the aftermath of the death of Alton Sterling during a struggle with BRPD officers.
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In the Bunny Hop sack race, contestants (left to right) Juliet Walker,7, Reginald Eloie,8,Emily Winter,10 and Jalen Hampton,8, leave the starting line with excitement, March 8, 2008.
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Nakita Shavers,19, (left) rests her head on the shoulder of her mother, Baton Rouge’s Yolande Adams, who cries as she holds a photo of her son, Hot 8 Brass Band drummer Dinerral Shavers, 25,who was killed in New Orleans in late December. They were participating in a moment of silence after a number of speakers put an exclamation point on an anti-violence march on City Hall in New Orleans, La., Thursday, January 11, 2007.
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O’Brien House executive director Katherine Martin, left, pats honoree Kevin P. Reilly Sr., center, as they and Mayor-President Kip Holden, right, celebrate the completion of the alcoholism and drug abuse residential treatment center’s new Single Residents Occupancy building (background) on Feb. 27, 2008. The building is named after Reilly, who was instrumental in the expansion.
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Craig ‘Scooter’ Swail flicks his fingers in a ‘hello’ to a motorist, as he walks along the median on the exit ramp of I-10 at College Drive, holding a sign asking for donations, Oct. 19, 2006. Swail has been on the streets for about 20 years, and said most people he encounters ‘are pretty nice. People will either give you something, or they won’t. I don’t go into stores and steal, and I’ll work for a day’s wage when I can,’ he said.
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New East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and her husband Marvin Broome, photographed at the home of their daughter Sarah Parker and son-in-law Sie Parker, Dec. 31, 2016, two days before her inauguration for her first term.
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LSU second baseman Taylor Tidwell dives for a sharply-hit ball that went for a hit from Auburn’s McKenna Dowell, in the fourth inning of LSU’s softball 4-1 win over Auburn, May 9, 2021.
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Southern University women’s tennis team members’have ‘scrambled legs,’ legs move back and forth in scissor kicks, as they exercise to strengthen their abdominal muscles Sept. 8, 2004 at practice. From left are: Kelli Nabors, Sydney Latigue, Isoke Perry and (right foreground) Francisca Osedumme.
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Southern University defensive tackle Zac Yassine (91), defensive end Jalen Ivy (96), linebacker Derrick Williams (46), linebacker Christian Lane (51), cornerback Marcus Borne (27) and others celebrate exuberantly after their nail-biting, last-minute, 21-17 win over Alcorn State, Saturday, Oct.15, 2022.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards, left, smiles and rubs his arm after getting the latest COVID-19 booster shot, this one from Pfizer-BioNTech, administered by LSU Health registered nurse Julie Robicheaux, right, just after getting his yearly flu shot at Our Lady of the Lake North Clinic on Airline Highway following a press conference on the importance of the shots, Sept. 13, 2022.
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Artist Wayne Jones, a South Baton Rouge resident ‘since I was a little boy,’ gets close to finishing a mural of the scene of George Floyd’s recent death at the hands of Minneapolis police, on the side of a building on Thomas H. Delpit Drive, June 10, 2020. Jones, who’s been doing murals in the community for many years, said ‘People want justice, freedom, equality and respect– people of all races.’
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An honor guard from Louisiana State Police salutes the casket holding former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer during a funeral service for Roemer, May 25, 2021 at Istrouma Baptist Church in Baton Rouge. Roemer died May 17, 2021, at age 77.
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Photographed Feb. 4, 2004, Clint Michael Carter, who is homeless, sometimes stays in this van through the kindness of its owner. He said it’s easy to find something to eat, but finding a safe place to sleep every night can be tough. He was among hundreds of homeless people in the Baton Rouge area.
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Masked up during the coronavirus pandemic on Sept. 28, 2021, Tones & Textures Hair Studio owner Holly Georgeson, left, sections hair as she applies highlights and lowlights for her also-masked client Tara King in Baton Rouge, Sept. 28, 2021. Each was looking forward to the lifting of the COVID-19 indoor mask mandate, but said they’d mask anyway, in certain situations. At a press conference later in the day, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced an extension of the state’s mask mandate for four more weeks in an effort to control the COVID-19 surge. ORG XMIT: BAT2109281514330052
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Louisiana First Lady Donna Edwards plays piano during a tour of the Governor’s Mansion, June 15, 2022.
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Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING — Sam Caruso, a U.S. Navy Petty Officer who served in Vietnam, fights back emotions as he remembers fellow soldiers who lost their lives, during his remarks at the second annual ‘Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans’ Recognition Day March 23 the USS KIDD & Veterans Memorial. He said annual event seeks to give Vietnam veterans the recognition they never received when they returned home from the war three decades ago. ‘There was just a lot of resentment toward us,’ he said. ‘The public has changed now.’
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Antonio Munoz, left, gives his seven-month-old daughter Aranza Munoz a brand new experience, holding her under the cooling water droplets of a ‘rain tree’ in the Pirate’s Cove children’s area at Baton Rouge’s Blue Bayou Water Park, during their visit from Laredo, Texas, July 20, 2022.
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‘It’s a beautiful day,’ said Baton Rouge’s Amena S. Askar, left, crying as she hugs one of her daughters, Manwah Ziadeh, after Askar participated in a naturalization and name change ceremony,Nov. 15, 2012. Askar, 52, who came the United States from Palestine 35 years ago as a 17-year-old newlywed, did not pass the citizenship tests when she first took them many years earlier, mainly because her English reading and writing skills weren’t yet very good. After raising five children, she finally reached her goal.
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LSU safety Jalen Mills (28) blocks this third down pass by Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel (6), forcing a punt during the teams’ game, Oct. 11, 2014 in Gainesville. LSU won, 30-27.
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Purple beads sail through the air, thrown by Rhett Vaughn of Plaquemine, center, from a float full of riders dressed like Elvis Presley, during the Krewe of Comogo Mardi Gras parade in Plaquemine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022.
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A U.S. Army Medivac helicopter rescuer, left, extracts the third of three persons from the trees around swift water under I-10 at Rose City, Texas, after their boat was either disabled or swamped, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, during flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey.
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Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING — Sgt. Jason Lee of Gonzales puts his arm around his stepson Raymond Street, 12, right, as they share a quiet, emotional moment outside the Southeastern Louisiana University Center, after soldiers in Louisiana National GuardÕs 1021st Vertical Engineer Company, 205th Engineer Battalion said goodbye to family and friends Friday during a deployment ceremony in Hammond. Angela Lee, Sgt. Lee’s wife and Street’s mother, is at left. The 1021st, based in Covington, will send more than 160 soldiers to Kuwait for a one year deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, after first conducting mobilization training at Fort Bliss, Texas.
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The Joint Honor Guard, consisting of members of the Louisiana State Police, La. Air National Guard and La. Army National Guard, carry a flag-draped casket down the State Capitol steps, at the end of the day after the conclusion of public visitation, after a Nov. 1 memorial service for former Louisiana Gov. David Treen. Photographer’s comments: I went back to the Capitol hours after the actual memorial service event, and felt fortunate to see this scene, which seemed to best portray the day.
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Hurricane Katrina left people in the New Orleans area stranded, but many more pets like this one, Sept. 6, 2005, in a neighborhood near the Industrial Canal, had not yet received rides on rescue boats.
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LSU’s Taylor Pleasants (17) is exuberant, celebrating with teammates after stomping on home plate after her grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning, in LSU’s 4-1 win over Auburn, Sunday, May 9, 2021 at Tiger Park.
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David Hampton, left, hands his father Charlie Hampton an irreplaceable family photo, taken when Charlie and his late wife visited her mother in Baton Rouge many years ago just after the birth of their first child, as they try to salvage precious family photos after the historic 2016 flood in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas, August 18, 2016.
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Prairieville’s Johnnie Kate Guidry, 5, left, and Ari Rivers, 4, right, visiting from Dallas, Texas, frolic together in water on the splash pad at BREC’s Forest Community Park, on an unseasonably hot day that had Baton Rouge flirting with its all-time high temperature for the date, on April 4, 2023.
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Followed by family members, four term Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards is carried in his casket up the steps of the Old State Capitol for a private funeral service there, July 18, 2021. Edwards, who died at 93, had just been moved through downtown Baton Rouge by carriage and honor guard from the State Capitol, where the public could come to pay their respects the day before.
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The flag-draped casket bearing the body of Louisiana National Guard Army Specialist Chris Drake, who was killed in 2013 in Afghanistan, is carried from a jet to waiting hearse by members of the Louisiana National Guard State Military Honors team, June 4, 2013, as family members react at Louisiana National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility #1 at Hammond Northshore Regional Airport.
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Kim Bowman, dressed as Cinderella, high fives Baton Rouge’s Chareleston Johnson, 3, during a visit to his room at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital on August 1, 2013, as part of the work of the Bella Bowman Foundation, named after the daughter of Kim and husband Trey. After 7-year-old Bella was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2011, she passed away less than a year later; her treatment by staff at OLOL inspired the Bowmans to create the foundation, to bring ‘comfort care’ and support to sick children and their families.
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Sarah Thompson waves at another boat as she holds ‘Roxie,’ and her husband Joshua Thompson holds ‘Slinky,’ as the couple is ferried by Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sgt. Chad Watts from their Country Roads home– one of the homes on highest ground– after waters got to be too much off Central Thruway and Frenchtown Road, Sat., Aug. 13, 2016 during flooding near the confluence of the Comite and Amite Rivers, after heavy rains. They spent to morning helping neighbors, but then had to leave too.
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Surprised by a sudden gust of wind on St. Louis Street as she rounded the corner outside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse, Gonzales’ Samantha Wilkins, an attorney in the Office of the Public Defender, reacts with astonishment as her umbrella reverses itself in the winds preceding a front of bad weather rolling through Baton Rouge, March 22, 2022.
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Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul listens to a question while speaking at a press conference held at City Hall on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 ‘to discuss public safety strategies and responses to recent violent crime.’
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Kim Byrd and husband Richard Byrd, out for a fitness and relaxation walk, Sunday, March 22, 2020, pass by timely comments chalked on the pavement of the Gus Kinchen Trail, including ‘Stay Strong Baton Rouge,’ and ‘We’re All In This Together!’ Late Monday afternoon saw the beginning of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ stay-at-home order to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, in the early stages of the pandemic that affected the world.
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Sgt. Drew Raymond lies back on a cot shortly after dawn Sunday, yawning and physically spent after running 86.5 miles, taking a short rest April 4, 2007 before completing his last lap around University Lake. He had to be helped up from the cot, but completed the last 4.12 mile lap, after stating previously he would ‘run, walk or crawl’ until the end. Tape added to extend the timer display shows almost 22 hours elapsed since the 24-hour benefit event began Saturday morning, which he undertook with co-runner Sgt. Steven Rogers; both are LSU students and in the Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Education Program. They were running 24 hours to raise money for a fellow Marine, Staff Sgt. Corey Petersen, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a snowmobile accident in February.
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Plaquemine’s Myiesha Bell lays on the State Capitol Steps, face down with her hands in a handcuffed position similar to that of George Floyd’s when he died recently in Minneapolis Police custody, as remarks are made at the conclusion of a protest march from Galvez Plaza to the Capitol in Baton Rouge on May 31, 2020.
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LSU’s J.C. Holt wears an intense expression as he connects with a second inning bunt down the third base line against Tulane in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional tournament, May 31, 2003.
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Clinton’s Whitley Wilson,12, gives her Grand Champion Barrow pig ‘Snoop Pig’ a kiss while brushing him before competition at the Feliciana Parishes 4-H and FFA Jr. Livestock Show in the 4-H barn at the West Feliciana Sports Park in St. Francisville, Jan. 14, 2022.
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From left, ‘Couyon Girls’ Teresa Alvarez, 60, of Prairieville, Debbie Trahan, 51, 63, and Denise Clause, both of Baton Rouge, get a selfie after finishing 63, the 5K of the Louisiana Marathon, Jan. 15, 2022. The big hair is part of their ‘Couyon Girls’ style.
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LSU third baseman Wally Pontiff, Jr. fields a hopping ball before before throwing to first base for the last out, May 22, 2002, in a 2-1 win over Auburn in the SEC championship first round game. Pontiff, who former LSU coach Skip Bertman called ‘everybody’s All-American,’ was stricken just months later in his sleep by sudden cardiac arrest brought on by genetic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and died in July 2002.
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LSU head baseball coach Skip Bertman beams, as members of his fourth national championship team get their picture taken with the NCAA trophy in the background, June 7, 1997 in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Former U.S. Senator John Breaux, D-Crowley, bends to offer his condolences to Raymond ‘Coach’ Blanco, seated right, after passing the casket of the late former La. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, August 22, 2019, in Memorial Hall at the State Capitol, during a public viewing by visitors paying their respects.
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Atlanta, Ga.’s Jasmine Jaramoga holds her seven-week-old daughter Layla Johnson, the infant decked out in a purple LSU cap and tiny purple mittens, after Fall Commencement ceremonies for LSU’s College of Science, Dec. 16, 2016. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology.
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Janelle Bovia, whose ‘Coke-bottle’ glasses could finally be discarded after she had surgery to give her implantable contact lenses, photographed Aug. 25, 2004 at Baton Rouge’s Willliamson Eye Center, where she had her surgery.
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Lucille Anderson, who turned 92 on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, kicks up her heels in delight, as she waves from the sidewalk in front of her home while friends drive past in a surprise birthday parade neccesitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Son-in-law Chad Brown holds an umbrella over her. Celebration parades like Anderson’s became common, as social distancing limited gatherings because of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 public health threat. ‘Absolutely elated, just speechless,’ Lucille said.
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Eric Waxley, center, is pulled to safety by Carol Richard, left, after the boat Waxley and wife Robin Waxley, background, were using to help rescue got into trouble in swift water near the Country Roads subdivision in Central, Aug. 13, 2016 during flooding near the confluence of the Comite and Amite Rivers.
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Photographed Oct. 6, 1999, World War II veteran Frank Valenti has been helped to be able to talk about his war experiences by attending a company reunion in Italy six years ago, by inspiration provided by his wife Yvonne, left, and reading chapters of Tom Brokaw’s book ‘The Greatest Generation,’ which recently put the spotlight on the sacrifices of America’s WWII veterans. The photograph is of Frank during his GI years.
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A group of people assembled to protest the death of George Floyd and other police-related deaths march down Siegen Lane after dark, starting from near near the RaceTrac convenience store and gas station, before walking to the corner of S. Reitz Ave. and a closed-down Siegen Lane, facing there a line of East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies lined up to keep them from entering an active roadway, before an agreement to peacefully disperse just before midnight, June 1, 2020 in Baton Rouge.
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Southern University’s Damion Hill (6, left) and Calvin Mills (37, right) tumble onto defensive back Edreece Brown (42) at the conclusion of the first-ever SWAC Championship game Dec. 11, 1999 in Birmingham, Alabama. Brown, who had three interceptions, including two in the final minutes of the game that stopped Jacskon State’s comeback, was presented with the defensive player of the game trophy for SU.
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A bee clambers over a sunflower, collecting pollen in one of two large fields of the flowers at the Burden Museum & Gardens, Sept. 24, 2020.
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A rescue boat piloted by volunteer Scott Hammon, left, pulls alongside the boat of Dustin Bergeron, right, to take a closer look at a fawn rescued by Bergeron and Dustin McCrory, on Bayou Francois in south Ascension Parish, where waters in the historic south Louisiana flood were continuing to rise Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Two other fawns they had rescued to relocate to higher ground jumped out of the boat.
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Even law enforcement officers were happy after Southern University’s last-minute clutch performance sealing the 21-17 win over Alcorn State at A.W. Mumford Stadium on Oct.15, 2022.
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Joel Ware clenches his fist smiling at family members after he received his diploma at Southern University’s Fall Commencement, Dec. 12, 2003. Ware, who had served a juvenile life sentence at Louis Jetson Correctional Center for Youth for armed robbery until he was 21, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in therapeutic recreation from the College of Education. ORG XMIT: LABAT
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Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola inmate Eldridge Stewart, foreground, grins as two brand new dogs for training, his dog Ruth, right, and Michael Navarre’s Sabrina, shower him with licks after the two received their new dogs in the PAWS (Prisoners Assisting Warriors Service) program, in which dogs are trained to be used as service dogs for military veterans, May 6, 2022.
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Aaron Delaune, left, Jerry Sanchez, right, and Dustin MCrory, background, rescue Sanchez’s Harley from his brother’s St. Amant house on Harry Savoy Road, after Jerry moved the bike there early Monday, during historic flooding there, Aug. 15, 2016 in Ascension Parish.
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State Rep. Emma Devillier (center) D-Plaquemine, thanks Lynne Marino (left) and Ann Pace, mothers of serial killer victims Pam Kinamore and Charlotte Murray Pace, for their emotional testimony at a meeting Thursday to discuss a resolution to study the death penalty in Louisiana, Dec. 11, 2003. Devillier said she encouraged them to stay involved in the process, that the voices of crime victims’ families were valued by this joint committee (Senate Judiciary C and House Criminal Justice)
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Lacumba, Southern University’s jaguar mascot, looks toothy even as it stifles a yawn Friday afternoon inside its cage on campus, Nov. 5, 1999.
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LSU running back Kevin Faulk runs past an Arkansas defender, Nov. 28, 1997.
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Trudy Gaspard of Metairie seeems dwarfed by the size of the the Common Baldcypress tree at Cat Island in Feliciana Parish, Oct. 14, 1998. She was on a Louisiana Forestry Association tour to view the tree, which has a girth of 644 feet, height of 83 feet and crown of 85. It is ranked as the 6th largest National Champion tree on the American Forests’ 1998-99 National Register of Big Trees.
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LSU running back Kevin Faulk tries to soar past Alabama cornerback Deshea Townsend (2) , Nov. 8, 1997.
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Parkview Baptist’s Shelly Ripple cuts a graceful arc into the water at the start of the women’s 200 medley relay at the LHSAA state championship swim meet, Nov. 22, 1997.
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A large, soggy stack of papers and keepsakes is sifted through by a solitary man, one of only several Hurricane Katrina victims still left at the I-10/Causeway exit’s refugee encampment in New Orleans, Sept. 3, 2003, after the evacuation of at least 7,500 staging there. He had difficultly communicating, but had paperwork with the name Walter McGee, of New Orleans, and he nodded yes when asked if that was his name. Doctors attended to him shortly thereafter.
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Boats stacked up in Oak Harbor Marina near Slidell, blown by the winds of Hurricane Katrina and photographed August 30, 2005.
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Donnita Craft (left) gives her son Warren Craft, 6, a kiss goodbye after he got off the bus in front of Parkview Elementary for the first day of school on Aug. 19, 1999. She made a special trip to the school just to get a picture of him getting off the bus.
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Former La.Gov. Edwin Edwards, center, shrugs and smiles as he is interviewed by reporters Nov. 6, 1998 outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Baton Rouge He’s holding a rolled up list of specific charges for each of the six defendents, including himself, who were involved in five diferent riverboat gaming licensing schemes. Asked about his calmness, he said ‘What am I going to do? I’m not going to run anywhere. I have to face this.’
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Carol (left) and Craig Brenden of Baton Rouge lay on their chaise lounges, watching the night sky in hopes of seeing a meteor the night of August 13, 1999. They’re illuminated by the red glow of a flashlight held by another observer, as binoculars stand nearby on a tripod for the viewing of stars. Watchers use flashlights with red tape over them to get around in the dark.
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LSU head football coach Gerry DiNardo ponders a question about his team’s season, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1999 in Baton Rouge, after reading a statement regarding the status of his job as coach. He was fired less tahn a month later.
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Jamal Pack, back, and LSU had to give running back Kevin Faulk (3) a hand, after he broke LSU’s all-time rushing record against Mississippi State Oct. 24, 1998.
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Sam Moran, Bird Curator at the Greater Baton Rouge Zoo, with a 2-week-old cockatoo chick under an incubator light, Sept. 3, 1997.
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LSU headcoach Gerry DiNardo and offensive tackle Trey Langley celebrate a first-quarter touchdown, Sept. 6, 1997.
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Darby McGill, 15, has a short cry, overjoyed after achieving her dream of winning the girls’ 16-year-olds’ title at the Louisiana State Closed Junior Tennis Tournament at Highland Road Park. The (Baton Rouge) Runnels School student is comforted by her father Rich McGill, after her grueling 6-0, 7-5 victory June 8, 2002 over Mandeville’s Katie St. Germain.
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Terry Allen, 22, of Denham Springs, examines the tattered remains of a U.S. flag flown outside Skinny’s Tavern near the Industrial canal; the door had a sign on it that read ‘Closed For Hurricane,’ Sept. 7, 2005, just over a week after Hurricane Katrina.
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Gov. Murphy J.’Mike’ Foster, (left) shakes hands with Patty Davis, vice-president of ABATE, a motorcyclists’ group, after the Senate Transportation Committee voted favorably to recommend SB1150, which Foster, a motorcyclist, backed, May 15, 1997. SB 1150 was a bill that would allow riders 18 and over to choose whether or not to wear a helmet when riding.
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Sister Mary Michaeline, superintendent of local Catholic schools, in the curriculum library at the Catholic Life Center, photographed June 3, 1998.
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. LSU pitcher Kristin Schmidt, NCAA Softball Waco Regional’s Most Outstanding Player, soars off the mound May 23, 2004 after notching her last strikout against Illinois, securing a 4-1 win and a berth for the Lady Tigers in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. It was her fourth complete game win in four days.
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Steve Davis of Sunrise Medical jabs his finger skyward in celebration, as Regan Collier,15, of Baton Rouge, controls her sit-ski for the first time without his help, May 15, 1999 at the HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital adapted waterski clinic at Bennett’s Tri-Lakes in Zachary. Collier has been disabled for about a year by a genetic disease that causes her to lose function in her legs.
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Heike Armatta, 6, jumps into her mother Rene’s arms, celebrating winning her heat of the girls 6 and under United States Swimming 25-yard backstroke at the 1998 Baton Rouge Summer Swim League Championships at the LSU Natatorium, July 11, 1998.
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This fawn, only a few days old, curls up in the woods southeast of Jackson, La., July 28, 1999, waiting for the return of its mother. For the first week or two of its life, the fawn is in its ‘hiding behavior,’ and will stay in one place even when approached by humans, and doesn’t yet follow its mother around.
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Milton Billiot tries to free himself during the bull riding event at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola spring rodeo April 12, 2003.Though he was under the bull for several seconds, Billiot was able to walk away.
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Shelby Edmonston, 7, wears an nervous look, as nurse Deedy Goodrum, left, gets a finally gets a blood sample through the permanent catheter for chemotherapy drugs in the 7-year-oldÕs chest in April of 2003. Grandmother Connie Edmonston, center, watches the weekly routine.
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Baton Rouge Police Dept. Sgt. Valerie Arnold, left, hugs East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Dept. Sgt. Roger Corcoran, after a ceremony outside the Governmental Building on May 15, 1998 honoring law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Arnold’s brother, EBR Sheriff’s Dept.,Cpl. Jerry Simmons of the was Corcoran ‘s best friend. Simmons was killed in 1988.
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The Reverend Charles T. Smith (left), embraces Baton Rouge bluesman Tabby Thomas, at the sponsor kickoff for Fix Up! Mid City Tuesday afternoon at the Baton Rouge General Medical Center, March 31, 1998. Smith was president of the Mid City Redevelopment Alliance Board of Directors, and Thomas’ ‘Tabby’s Blues Box’ venue was a Mid-City Baton Rouge business landmark.
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LSU’s Aaron Adams (37), who blocked a Clemson field goal to preserve LSU’s Peach Bowl lead and victory, rides jubilantly on teammates’ shoulders after the game, Dec. 28, 1996.
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Portrait of Dr. Susan Jong, a behavioral optometrist who specializes in treating patients with learning-related vision problems, photographed Feb. 26, 2002.
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Baton Rouge’s Chrislyn Compton looks at the headstone inscription at the gravestite of her grandfther, U.S. Army World War II veteran Ollie S. Scott, Sr., before a Memorial Day program at Port Hudson National Cemetery, May 30, 2022. Compton, who said she was raised by Scott and his wife, and she brought several items, things he loved to leave by the grave.
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Float rider Sarah Haage mades eye contact with the target of her throw in the the Spanish Town Mardi Gras Parade, Feb. 13, 2023. ORG XMIT: BT
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Yolanda Carter, an inmate on the Capricorn cellblock, listens while Claudette Newchurch, a first time volunteer minister from Glory House, reads to her from the Bible at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, March 20, 1998.
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Advocate Staff Photograph by Travis Spradling.Picture shot on 4-9-99 East Side Firefighter/EMT Mike Misenheimer trains a spray from a fire hose to knock down a fire inside the East Side Fire Protection District’s new training tower, April 9, 1999.
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Allie, a three-year-old Jack Russell terrier, pants as Catherine Paine carries her away from the finish line of the 1-mile Fun Run at the 11th annual Great Rover Road Run on March 20, 2004 at LSU’s Vet School. Despite having some of the shortest legs in the race, Allie won the event for the second year in a row, running with Catherine’s brother Stephen Paine.
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Nicole Lenoir-Bertrand, Consul General of France in New Orleans, congratulates Henry Butler, after awarding the WWI veteran the French National Order of the Legion of Honor (pinned to his chest) in a ceremony Feb. 17, 1999 at the Louisiana War Veterans’ Home in Jackson, La.
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Jaheim Walker, 16, left, and Aaron Edwards, 17, right, members of the La. National Guard Youth Challenge Program, plant some of the last flags on May 26, 2018, at the Memorial Day Garden of Flags on the grounds of the State Capitol, where Blue Star Mothers and volunteers placed 11,000 American flags after reading the names of the fallen from 9/11 to present day.
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Baton Rouge’s Jeramesha Warner holds a ‘George Floyd’ sign as she and other’s march down Siegen Lane, on a second day of Baton Rouge-area protests of the death of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis Police, Monday, June 1, 2020 in the Baton Rouge area.
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‘Mackerel Jordan,’ an inflatable mascot spoofing basketball great Michael Jordan, swallows an ‘assistant coach’ from the Arkansas Razorbacks team, during a time out Saturday in LSU’s 65-52 win, Feb. 7, 2004.
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LSU Basketball coach Dale Brown cuts down the net after winning the last game coached on the Tigers’ home court, against Arkansas on March 1, 1997.
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Prairieville’s Paul Johnson, Sr., promised each of his four children a ‘restored-by-Dad’ vintage Corvette, if they graduated college with a four-year degree. Daughter Penny Gallaway, right, who graduated Southeastern Louisiana University in 1992, lean on the 1963 ‘Vette she was to get soon, May, Jan. 29, 1999.
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The bronze statue of L. Governor Huey Long dwarfs participants in the Great River Road Run XV in 1993.The statue marking Long’s grave faces the Capitol where he was assassinated.
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The Advocate’s LSU football ‘photo team’ for many years– Travis Spradling, left, and Bil Feig– at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Sept. 2009.
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At a chilly Novermber 2014 LSU-Arkansas football game in Fayetteville, Travis Spradling finally got to wear the muskrat hat sent to him from Russia by his sister Amanda.