St. Vincent DePaul Fish Fry
Stay tuned for the take-out Fish Fry Dinner on March 26 from 5 – 7 p.m. in the St. Joseph Church parking lot, 6th and Newton Streets.
Mimosas at Shop the Huey-Easter!
Show up at Shop the Huey-Easter on April 3 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Free Champagne Mimosas will be offered to shoppers and browsers. For details, go to www.GretnaLa.com/ShopTheHuey or contact Summer Cook at 504.363.1552/email scook@gretnala.com.
Dafford exhibit at UL-Lafayette depicts Acadians’ epic journey
Muralist Dafford is up on a scissor lift in Gretna, standing in one place on a 6-by-8-foot platform that has a chair, a desk and a stereo. He’s a week behind schedule on his next 40-foot mural, this one on German ancestry. “I’m still interested and the work is still
Hook and Ladder Cemetery – Part 1
The blessing of the graves in Hook and Ladder Cemetery will be at 2:00 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 31 since All Saints Day falls on a Sunday this year. The official beginning of the Hook and Ladder Cemetery was on Feb.15, 1858 when three lots of ground, #1, #2 and
Heritage House Welcome Center – Tourism Office
The City’s Tourism Office (Heritage House Welcome Center) is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9am-12pm and 1-3pm. It is located at 111 Lavoisier Street.
German-American Cultural Center – Museum Hours
Visit us from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. (Face masks and social distancing are required.)
Gretna gears up to save the post office, again
For nearly 70 years, the people in Gretna, Louisiana, did their postal business at a beautiful post office built in 1936. It had a New Deal mural entitled “Steamboats on the Mississippi,” painted by Stuart R. Purser in 1939. In 2003 the Postal Service announced that it wanted to close
Dressing like the dead and telling their stories, Gretna Cemetery tour sold out NEWS WITH A TWIST
The Hook and Ladder Cemetery was established back in 1858 and it’s starting to show its age. To raise money for the old grounds, the Gretna Historical Society will be giving tours of the final resting place of the cemetery’s colorful residents. While touring in a cemetery at night may
About our museum
A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more: a building that is the area's last vestige of its colonial era. A rudimentary or degenerate, usually non functioning, structure that is the remnant of an organ or part that was fully developed or functioning in a preceding generation or an earlier stage of development.