BOSSIER CITY, La. – As the region celebrates 250 years of the United States, KTBS continues to highlight the ArkLaTex communities that helped shape this nation. And there’s a unique place in Bossier City where history is always on display.
“We preserve the history of Bossier Parish in a variety of formats,” said Pam Carlisle of the Bossier Parish Library History Center.
That includes incredible artifacts that are seen and some heard.
“The oral history that we have represents a project of more than four decades. There’s a Mr. Maggio here; that family has been here a long time. Rev. Eddie Giles, Lloyd Beene Moore,” said Carlisle.
East Bank and the area down by the Red River is known as Bossier City but, of course, it hasn’t always been known by that name…