Tuesday, November 03, 2020
The effort by a nonprofit group to revive the Liberty Theater in Eunice is significant not only because it will preserve a historic building and the programs that have been staged there, but also because it recognizes the value of the St. Landry Parish culture in one of the first places to catch on to that concept.
Curtis Joubert, as legislator in the 1960s and mayor in the 1980s, was one of the first leaders in Louisiana to see both the historic and economic worth of preserving and building upon the traditions of his community and the surrounding area.
As a legislator...