This program was produced by the University of Southwestern Louisiana School of Art and architecture in cooperation with Louisiana Public Broadcasting.

For over three centuries, the Mississippi River has spawned a new Old World culture along its lower valley.

Here.

Geographic and economic forces combined to build architectural monuments uniquely reflecting that culture.

Today.

Great houses like shadows of the past line its alluvial plain.

Shaped by Louisiana's humidity and the southern sun.

They are the remnant of a unique American invention.

Creole architecture.

In its rush to join the modern world.

The South shunned its historic architecture by the 1920s.

Traditional ways of building had been forgotten.

As ranch style houses filled our neighborhoods.

One man Hays Town from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recognized something was missing by returning to time honored traditions and reinterpreting them.

He sought to correct this imbalance quietly, one house at a time.

When you go into subdivisions and you see his houses, the appropriate for South Louisiana and architecture should look like it belongs.

It should have a regional influence or regional character that makes it feel that that's the place it really belongs.

A saltbox from the East coast does not look like it belongs in Belize.

A west coast cottage does not belong in Louisiana, but the French colonial character of the architecture that developed here, it fits.

It belongs.

I've noticed when when people see his work for the first time, there's almost a hushed all.

They're not sure what they're seeing because there's a mystery about what he creates.

His houses have not only a beauty, sometimes even a sense of longing, a sadness.

And it's because he's connecting us with our past.

Early French colonial settlers, who call themselves Creoles, adapted their native architectural forms to the subtropical climate of the Caribbean and the American South.

While colonial builders from England in Spain merely imitated European styles, the French natives developed something new.

Creole architecture is their unique creation, and the first indigenous New World architecture.

The Creoles well understood this environment.

They knew how to handle rising damp.

For example, they knew how to handle the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter both.

And they could design a building which was suitable for both of those things.

They had open spaces on the front and rear of the building, elevated galleries where people could walk, and they were oriented towards the flow of air.

In the West Indies, you don't find chimneys in the Creole houses.

Here, of course you do.

More than any other person.

It was Hays Town who adapted Creole architecture to this new modern style of life.

I think probably without haze, we would not have had this type of architecture surviving into the late 20th century.

Town took Creole architectures adaptive legacy into the modern American suburb.

Features like open galleries.

Cypress shingles.

Pitched roofs, olive jars, and simple lamps recall antique forms in a new way.

Hayes's work does not follow the historic replica.

In different periods of French colonial architecture, there's French influence.

The Spanish influence, there's African influences of architecture.

All of these things he understands well.

And he uses that in a master theater setting to create this older one.

Towns esthetic range has been diverse, but his homes all share common elements.

A blend of old world styles.

A sense of place and respect for the environment.

And adherence to rigorous craftsmanship.

The use of old materials in construction.

And a feeling of proportion and tranquility.

A prolific architect town is built 1000 homes across the south.

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Hi there, I'm in studio today with Ren, Rutledge Jones.

Ren and I go back and Ren's been a volunteer for a long time with LBB as well.

Welcome.

We're delighted to have you with us.

Here with you.

Thank you so much.

Connection for something very special.

Yes, absolutely.

Well, and rent is a realtor, so she knows the power and influence of a Hayes townhome.

So we'll talk a little bit.

Absolutely.

A little bit.

Why don't you tell us about the thank you gifts that we have?

Yes.

So not only can you feel good about supporting programs like the one you're watching, but there are a few ways that you will be thanked with these thank you gifts for a gift of $240, that's just $20 a month.

You'll receive the 1000 homes the legacy of a Hayes Town combo, which includes three special things a DVD of the program you're watching, the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book, as well as The Afton Villa.

The rebirth of a 19th century Louisiana Garden cover book, now at $120, which is just $10 a month to support LP, you'll receive the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book and at a $72 level, or just $6 a month, you'll receive a DVD of the program you're watching.

And in addition to any of these wonderful gifts, Betsy, you're going to receive visions LP's monthly program guide, as well as Louisiana Life magazine, which I love, and our popular member benefit LP.

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Passport is the streamlining service for the best of LP and PBS programing that you can watch anytime, anywhere.

So a lot of great ways that you'll be thanked.

In addition to supporting programs like the one you're watching.

That's awesome.

In addition to those thank you gifts, we have a special offer.

We have an artist that works with us at LPB, Eddie Moorman.

Eddie is a self-taught Louisiana artist.

He's colorblind, but he does some amazing paintings.

And if you look at the sunflowers behind me for a credit card pledge of $1,500, you will get this painting.

It's 30 by 40in and it's titled sunflowers.

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And one other thing that I want to address, you know, viewers like you help us, purchase television programing because we get that from PBS.

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You turn on, you become a viewer and a sponsor and a member, and we know what you like to listen to and watch.

And we will produce programing that matches that.

So that's all part of what we do.

One thing that I want to also mention is LPB.

Typically this time of year does a special raffle.

We have a raffle for you.

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I think rent is going to talk to us a little bit about a member challenge.

We have a very special challenge coming your way about this production fund.

Absolutely.

So Kathy and Frank MacArthur of Baton Rouge have issued the member challenge that we are very thankful to supporters like them.

Basically, they are proud to support LPB Louisiana Production Fund, which Betsy mentioned a few minutes ago, and they are challenging all viewers to donate tonight and they will match dollar for dollar.

The first 1500 called in during this program only.

So in effect, this will make your donation worth twice as much tale PB and it will help us produce the programs that you see in the documentaries that you see this evening that celebrate Louisiana's culture, food, music, scenery, all of those things that Louisiana has to offer.

So please, please call in during this program because it's going to it's going to mean twice as much.

And we just can't thank Kathy and Frank MacArthur of Baton Rouge enough for for supporting Louisiana Public Broadcasting and giving us that challenge.

So please call in.

Kathy Frank, we really appreciate you and we appreciate our members who will contribute to this fund.

We have a new show that is being being thought of and ready for production right now with Jay Darden, who you may know is Commissioner of administration, about why Louisiana isn't Mississippi.

And it is fabulous.

And so this is something it will be a four part series that you'll want to see.

And your contributing contributions for this will help support something like that.

Why don't you walk us through one more time what our thank you gifts are?

Yes, it would be my honor.

So when you call in, you're going to be thanked with some great, great thank you gifts for just $240.

For a gift of $240.

That's just $20 a month.

You're going to receive the 101,000 homes.

The The Legacy of a Hayes Town combo, which includes the DVD of the program.

You're watching, the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book, as well as Afton Villa The rebirth of a 19th century Louisiana Garden hardcover book.

So super special things to put in your library for $120, or that's just $10 a month.

You'll receive the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book, and then for a gift of $72, that's just $6 a month.

Betsy, you'll receive a DVD of the program you're watching.

So that's not all.

In addition to these gifts, you're also going to receive visions.

That's LPB monthly Program guide, Louisiana Life magazine.

That's one that I look forward to.

It hangs around our house.

We all pass it around when it comes.

And our popular member benefit LPB passport.

Everybody is busy.

Passport is the streaming service that will help you.

You can get the best of LPB and PBS at your convenience.

That's it.

And you can watch it anywhere.

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Passport is the best thing open, I can tell you.

I have just finished watching Hotel Portofino, which I love, so that passport streaming is really a wonderful addition to the full complement of things available.

I want to remind you of a few other things.

Remember the credit card pledge?

A $1,500 credit card pledge?

You will get this lovely painting behind me, the Eddie Moorman Sunflowers, and we have a raffle, so you need to tune in, turn on, scan that QR code so you know what you're getting at.

And in the next break, we'll talk to rent a little bit about a to a town homes and the impact to realtors in Baton Rouge because she is a realtor.

So and that member challenge call in.

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Builders today in Louisiana are following the path of Hays Town, but that is not always been the case.

The little house in the back.

At 90 town has paved the way for a region to rediscover its past.

I was born here, the Kitty Hawk that flew the airplane.

That's the year I was born in 1903.

In 1911, the first airplane flew in the skies of Louisiana, and I saw it take off and go about 200ft and get out of sight.

Well, many buggies were torn up because the horses ran away and taught a place up in my lifetime.

I flew a plane for about 25 years.

At 83, I landed a jet.

The town was born in Louisiana's rice country, near Lafayette.

At 15, he had already designed an addition to his family's home.

In 1918, he began his architectural career studying engineering at what is now known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Building on that foundation, he studied architecture at Tulane University, which stressed elaborate renderings of classical buildings in the Beaux Arts tradition.

While in New Orleans, town absorbed the architectural legacy of the French Quarter, features that would later appear in his homes.

For the next three decades, however, town was to design predominantly in a modern style, first with the firm of Overstreet in Mississippi and later in his own practice in Louisiana, building scores of modern public buildings across the two states.

Many in a pioneering material.

Reinforced concrete.

Jackson's Bailey Junior High School achieved in a national recognition.

But the town something was missing.

There's a difference between commercial and residential.

Residential is placed on a commercial empire.

A commercial could be anybody, anywhere.

A residence has to be people.

I don't see how she's saving a lot of money on this.

Also, I noticed instead of at the rear end of this wing, we initially had an open room that was unfinished.

We had this one.

Miss Aguillard asked me to look at that brochure.

At 60.

He did what his heart told him to do.

Homes that evoked the spirit and architectural styles of his native Louisiana, Louisiana.

They have a 30 year life on those signals.

One of the hallmarks of a Hayes Town house is his pioneering use of old materials slate bricks, beams salvaged from demolished warehouses and sugar mills.

Town recognized that in order to invoke the spirit of the past, he must go to the past for materials.

I think I was a face one of the state ever to use old materials, and I built my house.

I had a friend that was tearing out a building on a river.

I went to him and asked him if I could buy a little brick.

He said, what do you want to do with the old brick?

I said, I'm going to build a house.

He said, you mean you're going to put this junk in a house?

And I said, yes.

He says, you can have it all free.

When I was in architecture school, the type of work that Mr.

Town was doing was not looked upon very favorably, and that was that.

You you advance architecture.

You don't drop back and copy what was done in the past.

And that's exactly what he was doing.

He likes.

Old floors, old brick.

He wants to beat up on the mantels if they happen to be new, instead of being able to find them old.

And that melanin and softness and ease of being around is reflected in the house itself, so that you're comfortable, you're not afraid you're going to need something or scratch something, because it's already been well scratched and nicked and and lived in.

I remember one on one particular job, we got some beautiful beams, but they were somewhat large, and some of them were too big for the columns that we had to use in the home.

So after working on these things with taking a tremendous amount of time, the things came out beautiful, and Mr.

Town walked into the job one morning and looked at it, and he didn't say a thing other than said, does anybody have a hatchet?

And he he got the carpenter, brought him a hatchet.

And the first thing he started doing was chopping all of these beautifully squared corners of.

And the poor carpenter just couldn't believe what he was seeing.

And he just he caught himself on the back of the stairway right behind himself.

And he looked up and he said, Lord have mercy.

He said, he said, these were looking that better than that three days ago, he said.

Town emphasized the esthetic value of hand craftsmanship and fine millwork.

And he developed new staining techniques for giving floors a mellow patina.

He didn't want old floors ruined with a high gloss commercial varnish.

So instead of this, he got with his good friend old Mr.

Gravenberch, and he worked with Mr.

Greenberg boiling beeswax.

Now you first have to find the hives.

Then you find somebody will sell you chunks of the works that comes out of the house.

Then you put these big ten gallon pots on the stove and mix color in with the wax.

And then when you get that brew, that which is brew all stirred up, then you apply it to the floor repeatedly.

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Hi there.

We're back in studio with LPB and I am here with Wren Rutledge Jones.

Wren and I have known each other for quite some time.

Ren, you have a whole bunch of information to share with us.

Why don't you tell us about the thank you gifts that we have?

Absolutely.

So LP makes it easy for you to become a member.

All of the ways that Betsy just mentioned earlier, when you call in for just $20 a month, you're going to receive three great, great thank you gifts.

You'll receive the 1000 homes the legacy of a Hayes Town combo, and that's going to include the DVD of the program that you're watching, as well as the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book and The Afton Villa The rebirth of a 19th century Louisiana Garden hardcover book.

We have these books in the studio today, and they are just phenomenal.

At just $10 a month, you're going to receive the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book, and then for just $6 a month, you're going to receive a DVD of the program that you're watching.

But that's not all, Betsy, because in addition to these wonderful gifts, you'll receive the visions LPB Monthly Program Guide Louisiana Life magazine, which I look forward to when it comes in my mailbox.

And our most popular member benefit, LPB passport.

Passport is the streaming service, which makes it easy for you to watch the best of PBS and LPB programs.

Anywhere, anytime.

Everybody's busy, so you know.

Yep.

Yep, you get to watch it the middle of the night whenever you want.

You get to pick it.

So do it.

So that's a terrific benefit of your membership in Louisiana public broadcasting ran I think.

Well, I have one thing to remind you of.

We have a special credit card offer for a gift of $1,500.

Eddie Moorman, who is a self-taught Louisiana artist, works with LPB and helps us out with artwork.

And he has produced this sunflower painting that's behind us.

And for your credit card gift of $1,500, you get this.

I think it's 30 by 40 painting of sunflowers.

So that's a lovely plus up for your credit card.

Special gift of $1,500 rent.

I think you have something to share with us about a member challenge.

I do.

We are so thankful for supporters like Cathy and Frank MacArthur of Baton Rouge.

So when you call in because of their generous support, you are going to receive twice as much bang for your buck, if you will, because they are matching your donations dollar for dollar tonight for the first $1,500 called in this during this program only Betsy.

So it's going to make your donation go twice as far to help us produce more documentaries, more programs that really show the culture, the food, the scenery, all of the things that we love about Louisiana.

And so you're going to make twice the impact.

So if you're thinking about it and you haven't quite called in or scan the QR code, please, please, we encourage you to do that during this program because again, thanks to Cathy and Frank MacArthur, your dollar is going to count twice as much.

So please.

That's terrific.

And I want to let you know, one of the things that we currently have in the hopper with our Louisiana production fund, which again, you can become a founding member, which we would love to have your gift, but we want to tell you about this because you're going to love this when it is open and produced and online.

It is.

Why ain't Mississippi or any place else?

It is.

We're working with Jay Darden.

Jay has a special series that he does for pay, and so you'll be able to watch.

It's a four part series, that talks about, if you've ever wondered why Louisiana is so unique culturally and, and it is if you think about it.

And so it's the demographics of who came here, where they settled, you know, the Germans, the Irish, the Haitians, the Creole, the Nova Scotians, all of this that has the the cultural gumbo that is Louisiana.

This will be one of our first things that we will be doing with this production fund.

So we invite you to participate with us, and we invite you to stay tuned so that while Louisiana ain't Mississippi or any place else, we going to have that ready to roll.

The real title, that is.

The real title.

That is a real title.

It's appropriate.

Yes, absolutely.

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You know, I've been watching this production, and one of the things that is so great about it, the 1000 homes of Hays Town, several of the people that are in it are friends of mine.

And I knew Mr.

Town.

He was amazing.

He filmed this when he was 90 years old.

He always had that German Shepherd, which was the love of his life.

No offense to his wife, but he loved his dog.

But it's just it's wonderful to see this.

But Jay Edwards, who talks, is a cultural, geographic, architectural anthropologist.

I've known Jay for 50 years on my life.

Dickson Smith, who has been an important decorator and designer throughout Louisiana, is in this.

And it's interesting their observations.

But rent from a housing perspective and realtor ship, what's the value of a pace town or the image?

It speaks for itself.

If you see a listing and in the listing remarks it's an a Hayes townhome, it automatically elevates it in the eyes of everyone.

There's a lot of respect there because of the quality.

And there's some neat things my my father in law worked for him, Betsy.

And whitewashing, for example.

You make a paste, and put it up like a pancake based paste.

And and painters today don't know how to do that, right.

You know, it's a skill that an a trade that he, you know, he was known for.

And the homes have that quality.

Well, they talk about the floor wax, the paste.

He didn't want a high gloss.

And so he would take beeswax and cook it and melt it down and all that kind of stuff.

It's just fascinating.

And this is a really remarkable and important documentary for someone who has been influential all across the state of the state.

He was from the Lafayette Abbeville area.

That's where his wife was from.

But let's go back to gifts.

Tell us what gifts we have for supporting us.

Absolutely.

So when you call in or go online or scan the QR code to support LPB, there are some thank you gifts that you're going to receive for just $20 a month.

You're going to get three things the DVD of the program you're watching, the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book, as well as the Afton Villa Rebirth of a 19th century Louisiana Garden.

It's the book.

$10 a month.

You're going to receive the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town book.

And just $6 a month you're going to receive the DVD of the program you're watching.

So also, when you call in, there's that member challenge.

Betsy, thank you to Cathy and Frank MacArthur of Baton Rouge.

Your dollar is going to count twice as much in this program only.

So please keep watching and call in.

Right?

Keep watching.

Call.

He also is able to take the long view and envision his houses overgrown with the kind of lush vegetation of these parts.

And in fact, the vegetation is really part of the vision of Mr.. Towns houses.

And and they're not finished until the vegetation has begun to overtake them.

I think one of the real virtues of this new suburban prototype that Mr.

Town has developed is the way that the building sits in its site.

It gives a family a center for their life out of doors, and allows for the kind of indoor outdoor interaction that seems to be such an important component of modern life.

It it allows houses to open up and be very transparent, while at the same time providing a kind of privacy for the family.

One space leads you on to another space, and at every turn you look through a window and there's an alley, and you look through another door open and there's a some vista that's terminated by a statue or, or a tree.

And he seems to play with your feelings that as you move through the structure or as he pulls you through the structure, he allows you to experience different things at different times.

So he, in the way, manipulates your feelings.

And it's always a pleasure to be surprised and to realize that these things were done because he understood that someone would see it and appreciate it.

I was walking here the other day and I fucked.

That's something wrong back there.

And I looked at it.

Beautiful color way back in the back.

And look at blends with the grass, with the trees and everything you see.

You see how it all is a picture of something that goes together and all of a sudden look over to the left.

You see a white spot that white spots got to disappear.

It's got to be blended in.

And all this trim around here in that window, it's all going to be kin to that back then within the next month.

So that's the way I do things by accident.

I think that he sees it can't has a photographic memory, can draw it to scale.

Exactly.

And then we'll take a ruler and measure it and, and give the dimensions from, from his own drawing, because he has this wonderful ability to reproduce precisely what he sees.

It's a real artist.

I, in addition to the sense of proportion of an architect.

On your bed, get on your bed, get on your bed.

I didn't tell you to get on my bed.

I lost you.

Always get up at 2:00 in the morning, no matter what time I go to bed.

That's been going on for many, many years.

And my wife would.

She never complained about anything.

And I've always had dogs, German Shepherds.

And we.

I'd wake up at two in the morning and bring her Cajun coffee to bed, which she really enjoyed.

She was from Abbeville and she'd make coffee, but she made a pound cake once a week for the dogs.

So together we'd feed the dogs and she'd go back to sleep and I would go to work.

That went on for years and years and years.

Now I still get up at two and I still like the rest of the night.

He doesn't.

He's not in his feet, but I don't think he's somebody who needs to be in rarefied surroundings to produce Josh.

And Hayes favorite way of working, as I recall, was not in some fancy office or to death.

He did a lot of his designing at home at night on a card table, and he loved to have people around him, as I remember, and I think he always still does this.

He loved to have some kid rubbing his head, you know, it's.

One of the things I used to always enjoy about Mr.

Town was the way he juggled so many things.

At one time he'd mix paints, and of course he was an avid player of the stock market.

And and while he'd mix paints many times, he'd say, well, just just put that on the wall and I'll be right back.

And he'd go to call his stock broker to see what was going on in the, in the market.

And if he had to buy a sale, he'd do that.

Then he'd come back and and makes a little more paint than he'd do the same thing again.

His passion and commitment to his homes often create enduring relationships, and some relationships extend well beyond the architect's call of duty.

If you do a residence, you became a part of the family.

When the kids get married, when somebody dies, you're always there.

You always part of that family.

We'd been looking for a bad for about seven years, and Bobby and I walked into a show, an antique show, and there was this marvelous bed.

I called Hayes and I said, do you have time to come down and see it?

And he said, yes, he did.

So we we ran, got the car and picked him up and took him over.

And before he even got into the the exhibition hall, the bed was in the far corner.

He looked across the hall and he said, yes, that's it, that's it.

Hayes weaves magic.

He really is a magician.

He has a set pattern with his clients, and a part of the magic is to take them to his house, and they fall in love with his house.

It is wonderful.

Then he takes them to New Orleans, and they go through this routine of meeting all of his friends and going to the Sterns, and they're going to the demolition places, and the whole thing just becomes an enchanting adventure.

And part of that magic rubs off on the clients.

And they think that they think and and it's true that Hayes is a little magic.

You don't notice this, but he's always watching you.

And whenever he sees something that ignites the spark in your eye, well, he he makes a metal note of it.

And he just in that way, in a very short time, he's able to capture exactly what a homeowner really likes.

Abbeville, a small town on the Vermilion River, is a monument to towns appreciation and response to Louisiana architecture.

When the old courthouse burned, the parish council turned to him to build a new one.

You can't help but pass the courthouse.

There's two main highways that come in, and one takes you right past the front of the courthouse.

The other one comes right through the middle of town so that the courthouse square and the town square, which is a park, interrupt that highway.

And to maintain the integrity of that whole downtown area, he really took advantage of the site to the maximum, his voice taking advantage of that axis.

He could have done a contemporary building, but again, it wouldn't have been appropriate.

And what he did really address the contextual issues of the surrounding buildings that are there.

Around a bend in the river lies a street lined with three Hayes townhouses.

One captures the shady porches of another century.

Another the metal roof and simple form of the Acadian cottage.

A third, the high style in symmetry of a Creole raised cottage.

All evoke a sense of place.

I decided one time to paint losing on a paintings because I loved Louisiana and by boyhood in southwest Louisiana.

It was great because I knew almost every lake and every bar, every stream and every oak tree almost in South Louisiana.

It was a great part of the world, and all my life I've been sold on the beauty of that poorer world.

There's a certain idealized version of Louisiana in those paintings, and maybe you get something like that in these architecture, too.

And I think the thing that makes people make art, or whatever they do, is, is not something they kind of chose rashly and cool, and they.

I think it's like a man being propelled down a stream, you know, a small thing.

He's trying to grab it and branches and sticks and he goes down there and somebody said, hey, what's it like in there?

You know, and I think you're just being propelled by whatever it is that drives you.

And I think he's is like a lot of, like a lot of us just found Louisiana really a source that he could let go of, you know.

Hello again.

I'm Betsy Baker Miller, friend and supporter of LPB.

Welcome back into the LP Studios.

On our last for our last time, we are at the conclusion of 1000 homes the legacy of a haze Town.

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Hi there, I'm in studio with Wren, Rutledge, Jones, and Wren.

We're happy to have you with us again.

It's an honor.

Thank you.

And I want to remind our viewers, you know, your your viewership is great, but we also need your support, because the only way we can put programing out there is either to purchase it or produce it.

And this is what your sustaining support does for us.

It helps us support the programs that we show, and your giving in programs tells us what you like to see.

So it directs our programing staff with the kinds of shows that you'll want to see based on what you're giving is.

So the more dollars you give per program, you vote and we respond to that.

But Rand has a selection of thank you gifts.

And why don't you tell us about the thank you gifts that we have with this?

Well, in addition to getting programing like like you're seeing today, you're going to receive some thank you gifts that are pretty special.

Just $20 a month as a call in to LP, you're going to receive three things the DVD of the program you're watching, as well as two really, really fabulous books, The Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book, as well as Villa The Rebirth of a 19th Century Louisiana Garden hardcover book.

We have these in the studio, Betsy, and they are beautiful, so you'll be excited.

So just call in $20 a month.

For $10 a month, you're going to receive the Louisiana Houses of a Hayes Town hardcover book.

And then at the $6 a month level, you're going to receive a DVD of the program you're watching.

So all wonderful thank you gifts.

But in addition to that, Betsy, you and I both know that there's some other things that come along with your membership, like visions.

That's LP's monthly program guide, as well as Louisiana Life magazine and our most popular member benefit.

Because everybody is busy, you're going to receive LPB passport.

So passport is the streaming service for the best of PBS and LPB.

You can watch it anywhere, anytime.

And we know that that's what everybody appreciates.

It's the new world.

So make your pledge and then you'll get access to passport which people are loving.

I have a couple of other things to remind you of.

For a credit card pledge of $1,500, you will get this lovely Eddie Mormon Mormon painting of sunflowers behind me.

Eddie is a Louisiana artist and he's colorblind and self-taught, but he does some amazing artwork and he's so helpful to us, so we appreciate that.

But I might just have to take it.

Yeah, I leave.

There you go.

I have to do is leave us your credit card number.

We'll be happy to 888769 5000 $1,500 gets you that sunflower sunflower painting.

You know, in this program, we've had some really interesting comments about how if you work with Hays Town, you kind of become a member of his family.

Yes.

And so he invites you to his home, and then you go down to New Orleans and you go, what used to be called the bank, which had, you know, reclaimed materials and such as that.

Well, I have a little Hays Town story.

A friend of mine wanted Hays Town to design a Spanish style architecture home for him.

So he says, oh, sure, no problem.

So Hays hops in his airplane and flies down to San Miguel, Mexico, does some rendering, sketching, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

It comes home, comes up with some drawings, and then sends my friend a bill for his.

Trip to.

San Miguel.

And it was like.

Wait a minute, that was not.

Part of this process.

But.

I mean, Hays Town was quite unique.

And he was he was something else.

But you did become a part of a family when you were with him.

I have been to his home.

Yeah, the one on Stanford.

And it's impressive as well as to the bank that you mentioned in New Orleans.

Yeah, just so unique.

So unique.

It's terrific.

You want to tell us about the member challenge?

I would love to.

So we are so thankful because we have supporters like Cathy and Frank McArthur of Baton Rouge.

And if you call in during this show only and the program is getting towards the end here, so your time is running out, your contribution gift to LPB is going to count twice as much up to $1,500.

So they are challenging you to call in.

That's Cathy and Frank MacArthur.

We're so appreciative of their support.

Call in the first $1,500 called in during this program, only Betsy is going to make your donation worth twice as much.

So if you've been thinking about it, please, I encourage you.

We encourage you to call in become a supporter.

They make it so easy to do, and then you're going to be able to help LPB produce more, more programs like the one that you see today.

Culturally relevant for us.

And I want to remind you that right now we have something in the hopper.

We're working with Jay Darden.

While Louisiana, Mississippi, or any other place, it is fabulous.

It will be a four part production, so stay tuned, but make your contribution and designate it.

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Wren, why don't you quickly go through your your thank you gifts and show us the books that we have at least ten books.

So, absolutely.

So for $20 a month, you're going to receive a DVD of the program that we're watching tonight.

But then also these two beautiful books, you know, just filled with all kinds of wonderful information and photographs that and then just for $10 a month.

Easy, easy.

You're going to receive the Hayes Town book, and then for $6 a month, you'll receive the DVD of the program that you're watching tonight, today.

So yeah, great, great reasons to call in.

They make it so easy.

And remember it's that member challenge.

Thanks to our good friends Kathy and Frank MacArthur.

This this program, only when you call in your dollar is going to be matched up to $1,500.

So please.

That's awesome.

And if you make that credit card pledge of $1,500, you qualify for the Eddie Moorman painting.

So that's always something that we have that's super special.

And to remind you about passport, because passports.

In the books are so big and heavy.

And she wants us, she sneak out with them.

But we have passport, which is one of the best ways for you to view our programing at your leisure whenever you want to, but also thanking you.

Visions or monthly guide?

You know what?

What to watch, when to watch it and who's coming on.

And then Louisiana Life magazine really is a wonderful publication and it's titled totally describes it Louisiana Life.

So we encourage you pick up the phone 888769 5000 text give to that same number 888769 5000 lpb.org on your computer.

Or you can scan the QR code and we can make that happen.

Afton Villa has really become a beautiful garden.

The house burned down years ago and the properties have turned into garden.

So come see Louisiana.