JAMES MINTON
James Minton has been bureau chief for the Baker-Zachary-Felicianas Bureau since July 1988. While attending college in the 1960s, he wrote articles for his father's newspaper in Livingston Parish, and he was news editor of the Denham Springs-Livingston Parish News for almost 15 years.
A graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University and a U.S. Army veteran with Vietnam service, he lives in Denham Springs.
The 39th annual Audubon Pilgrimage begins Friday morning and continues through Sunday in St. Francisville.
Load the children and their Easter baskets in the car and head out Saturday for a 19th-century Easter egg hunt on the grounds of Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site in St. Francisville.
Continuing the “Big Read” program that this year features “The Great Gatsby,” the West Feliciana Library presents a talk at 3 p.m. Saturday in St. Francisville by Ed Tyler, of the English department at Baton Rouge Community College, who will speak on the development of movie “talkies.”
Reservations are being accepted for the Zachary Historic Village’s progressive dinner at 6 p.m. March 13.