event: Rheta Grimsley Johnson on tour for book "Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana"
date: October 02, 2008 06:00PM
location: Octavia Book Store, 513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA, United States
description:
We hope you can join us as Rheta Gimsley Johnson reads from and signs here recent book, <b><i>Poor Mans Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana</b></i>.
<p>
For over a decade, syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been spending several months a year deep in the heart of Cajun Louisiana. Unlike many other writers who have parachuted into the swampy paradise for a few days or weeks, Rheta fell in love with the pla...more
We hope you can join us as Rheta Gimsley Johnson reads from and signs here recent book, <b><i>Poor Mans Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana</b></i>.
<p>
For over a decade, syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been spending several months a year deep in the heart of Cajun Louisiana. Unlike many other writers who have parachuted into the swampy paradise for a few days or weeks, Rheta fell in love with the place, bought a second home and set in planting doomed azaleas and deep roots. She has found an assortment of beautiful people in the homely little town of Henderson, right on the edge of the Atchafalaya basin....less