The museum is featured on the cover of the recently distributed AT&T Real Yellow Pages that serve Washington Parish. The cover features a stunning photograph of the museum, which was been renovated under the watchful supervision of volunteer director Millicent “Jimmie” Canter.
“We’re very excited,” Canter said. “This means that for the next year, this wonderful facility with all it has to offer will be front and center anytime someone uses a directory, reminding residents and visitors about these two great museums and Cassidy Park.”
 DAILY NEWS PHOTO/Richard Meek Rick Demint, Regional Director of External Affairs for AT&T, presented Cassidy Park Museum director Millicent “Jimmie” Canter with an enlarged copy of the Washington Parish AT&T Real Yellow Pages that features the Indian Museum on the cover. Present for the presentation, left to right: Sandy Bloom, human resource director for the City of Bogalusa; Washington Parish President Richard Thomas; Lesley Lewis, representing state Sen. Ben Nevers; state Sen. Harold Ritchie; Canter; Demint; Carol Duke, president of the Friends of the Museums of Cassidy Park and Robert Wheat from the state museum office. Advertisement |
The directory also will be available to new residents and businesses throughout the year.
“We are happy to feature the Bogalusa Cassidy Park Museum on the cover of our new AT&T Real Yellow Pages directory for this area,” said Sandra Falcon, AT&T Advertising Solutions area marketing manager. “We always strive to tie our directory covers to the community and to tailor the contents inside our print directories and online search options to best serve the needs of our residents, businesses and advertisers.”
The Pioneer Museum is devoted to telling the story of Bogalusa from the earliest settlement of the Choctaw Indians to those to who founded the largest sawmill in the world in the 1920s.
The Museum of Indian Culture has a prestigious collection to its credit including a portion of Tyra Treadway’s basket collection.
“We are very appreciative of the support we received from our elected officials including state Senator Nevers, State Representative Harold Ritchie and Washington Parish President Richard Thomas,” Canter added. “They have supported the park and museums for a long time, and understand their importance to the citizens of Bogalusa.”
Canter and other museum officials were recently presented with an oversized cover of the directory at a ceremony that was attended by parish and local officials, including Thomas and Ritchie, at the museum
“The Museum is important to the vitality of our community,” said Nevers, who was unable to attend the presentation.
“Since the early 1900s Cassidy Park, visited by nearly 6,000 people from around the country each year, has served as the hub of Bogalusa’s recreational activities. Home to the Museum of Indian Culture and the Pioneer Museum, the continued success of Bogalusa Cassidy Park is critical to economic and cultural development of Washington Parish.”
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