The Haunting of Louisiana (Haunted America) - Softcover

Sillery, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565549058 ISBN 13: 9781565549050

Publisher: Pelican Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Based on the PBS documentary of the same name that aired across the country, The Haunting of Louisiana highlights many of the stories that would not fit into the one-hour television program.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"To those who may be encountering Louisiana for the first time through these wonderful stories-prepare to be engaged and entertained to a degree to which you are certainly unaccustomed . . . Barbara's gift for storytelling holds in the written word just as it does before a television camera."
-Phillip J. Jones, former secretary, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism

Louisiana has long had a reputation for its hauntings. This evocative book delves into ghostly escapades and unexplained happenings at various historic sites throughout the state. In the confidential tones of a seasoned raconteur, author Barbara Sillery conjures the terror and mystery of the spectral South.
Based on the PBS documentary of the same name, The Haunting of Louisiana showcases many of the stories and behind-the-scenes incidents that would not fit into the one-hour television program.
Barbara Sillery is a television producer, writer, and co-owner of Keepsake Productions, Inc., which specializes in award-winning cultural documentaries. She has always been fascinated with death and the "ability of souls of the dead to return for the occasional visit" and continues to bring the past into the present through her tireless work. Her daughter Danielle Genter contributed photographs to this book.
Sillery's business partner and award-winning photographer, Oak Lea, was nominated for a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for directing The Haunting of Louisiana, which also received a national Telly Award and two WorldFest awards.

From the Inside Flap

"Barbara's gift for storytelling holds in the written word just as it does before a television camera."
--Phillip J. Jones, Secretary of Louisiana's Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism

"The Haunting of Louisiana is told in a cinematic style well suited to books about ghosts and their habitats, especially when those habitats include some of the state's finest and most romantic locales."--Blue Iris Journal

Louisiana's haunted reputation is spotlighted here in twenty chapters about the ghostly escapades and unexplained happenings at various historic homes, plantations, and other sites throughout the state.
Based on the PBS documentary that aired across the country, here are many of the stories that would not fit into the one-hour television program. Also included are behind-the-scenes incidents that occurred during the taping.
Barbara Sillery is a television producer, writer, and co-owner of Keepsake Productions, Inc., which specializes in award-winning cultural documentaries. She has always been fascinated with the "ability of souls of the dead to return for the occasional visit," and continues to bring the past into the present through her tireless work. Danielle Genter, one of her three daughters, contributed photographs to the book.
Sillery's business partner, Oak Lea, an award-winning photographer, was nominated for a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for directing The Haunting of Louisiana. The film also received a national Telly Award and two Worldfest Awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pelican Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1565549058
• ISBN 13: 9781565549050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224