Price’s Beauty Shop Historic Site

06/03/2026

The spring guided tours are canceled until Fall 2026. Keep an eye out for the dates and details.

05/28/2026

Yes, please bring this back! 💗

05/06/2026

As we mark 50 years of tourism in Monroe-West Monroe, this moment offers more than a milestone - it offers a chance to recognize the people who have shaped the experience along the way.

05/03/2026

May is Historic Preservation Month.

05/02/2026

Last fall, the new Registrar of Voters Office officially opened its doors in the former Ouachita Parish School Board Media Center.

Don’t forget today is the opening day for early voting for the May election, which will end Saturday, May 9, 2026. (Not open on Sunday)

04/20/2026

We ❤️ this!

This story stays with you. Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, a Cleveland-based historian, artist, and Ph.D. student in preservation at Columbia University, is restoring a 1947 Greyhound bus as a way to tell the story of the Great Migration. Edwards plans to turn the bus into a mobile museum called the National Museum of the Great Migration.

For millions of Black Americans, buses like this weren’t just transportation. They were a pathway to possibility, carrying people in search of safety, opportunity, and the American dream.

What I appreciate about this work is how it expands our understanding of preservation. It’s not always about buildings. Sometimes it’s about the spaces in between the journeys, the movement, the lived experiences that shaped our history.

Preserving Black history means telling the full story. Thank you Robert Louis Brandon Edwards. I can't wait to see your work in person.

Link in comments to read the full article.

04/18/2026

Busy morning! Trash was collected, but beautification became the main focus of our project. Keep Louisiana Beautiful Keep Monroe Beautiful Keep Ouachita Parish Beautiful

Thank you Ouachita Green for sponsoring our event and a huge thank you goes out to Rev. T. J. Stevenson, aka the “Mayor” of Adams Street, for her support.

Cityy

04/12/2026

Last Friday, I made a special effort to get to Timez Kitchen and Kocktail before the clock struck 3:00pm for the catch of the day, but it was sold out.

03/01/2026

02/28/2026

As Black History Month comes to a close, we pay tribute to the legacy of George B. Hamlet, a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Refer to Outsider in Ouachita Parish Politics published in 64 Parishes.

For those of you who are skeptical about Hamlet’s racial identity, he was profiled for posterity sake in The Ouachita Telegraph by editor, George W. McCranie, who described him as, “a very light-colored man of color and a very successful Radical Politician.”

And if you are not fully convinced that Hamlet was the official mayor of the City of Monroe, we leave you with this documentation.