The hats won’t be on exhibit in time for Easter, but that wouldn’t have mattered to Louise Fertitta. She didn’t need a holiday to dictate when she would or could wear a hat.
“She would always have a hat on when I saw her,” said Lauren Davis, curator of the West Baton Rouge Museum. “And everyone who knew her, knew about her hats.”
The museum is opening “Tea Party Hats: The Louise Fertitta Collection,” on April 11. The exhibit, a sampling of the late Port Allen resident’s hat collection of hundreds, will coincide with the museum’s traveling exhibit, “Finding Alice: Artists Exploring Wonderland featuring Abelardo Morell,” which opened on March 21…