BATON ROUGE — WBRZ’s 70 for 70 will profile some of the personalities who have been on Channel 2’s air since it began broadcasting 70 years ago.
This week on 70 for 70, it’s the story of a little boy who dreamed of being a writer and telling stories about his home in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Ernest Gaines was born on a plantation in Oscar in 1933, where he attended the only school for African-American children in the town in a tiny church…