I spent a lovely afternoon today at Laura Plantation here in Louisiana.Laura is a Creole plantation, its restoration bright with color instead of the white that we usually think of in regard to this kind of ante-bellum structure.
Laura has been in the sugar cane raising business since 1805 and interestingly, for much of the time, it was the women of Laura who ran the plantation's business.
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