NEWS RELEASE

JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA

September 19, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FILMMAKER KEVIN MCCAFFREY TO DISCUSS LATEST DOCUMENTARY AT EAST BANK REGIONAL LIBRARY

JEFFERSON, LA – Kevin McCaffrey, a filmmaker, writer, editor and oral historian based in New Orleans,  will discuss his most recent documentary “Eternal Flow: Mississippi River Views,” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at the East Bank Regional Library (4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, LA 70001).

This presentation is free of charge and open to the public. There is no registration. 

“Eternal Flow” is a collection of vignettes on different cultural, historical, economic and ecological perspectives on the Mississippi River. Viewers can learn about an itinerant "river preachers"; discover the history of the sugar industry in Louisiana while highlighting the lives of enslaved people; and hear about a “living laboratory” in the Wax Lake Delta – an area of Louisiana’s coast that is building land using sediment and fresh water in a landscape that is otherwise suffering some of the most extreme land loss rates on the planet.

McCaffrey’s documentary and archivist work primarily focuses on Louisiana history and culture, with an emphasis on the region's culinary history and environmental issues. His work has received both national and regional recognition. He has worked with a number of notable organizations dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Louisiana and New Orleans, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Louisiana State Meseum, Historic New Orleans Collection, WYES-TV, Loyola’s Center for Environmental Communication, and the Louisiana Folklife Commission.

For more information regarding this event, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at (504) 889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.

The Jefferson Parish Library system consists of 16 locations that stretch from the Lakeshore Branch on the edge of Lake Pontchartrain to the Grand Isle Branch just steps away from the Gulf of Mexico. The library system consists of two large regional libraries and seven branches on each side of the Mississippi River. The East Bank Regional Library (4747 West Napoleon Avenue, Metairie) serves as library headquarters. The Jefferson Parish Library is the second largest system in the state of Louisiana. More than 200 employees work for the Jefferson Parish Library including librarians, administration and support staff. For more information, contact the library at (504) 838-1100 or www.jefferson.lib.la.us.

For more information about Jefferson Parish, visit www.JeffParish.net. Residents can also receive regular updates by following the Parish on social media (@JeffParishGov) or by texting JPALERT or JPNOTICIAS to 888-777.

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