In 1936, Laura Locoul Gore compiled an account of nearly 100 years of life on a Louisiana sugar plantation named after her:
                                                   "Laura Plantation."
Her manuscript, only recently discovered in St. Louis, Missouri, details the daily life and major events of the inhabitants, both free and enslaved, of the plantation that she and her female fore bearers ran. Laura's writings offer an insider's perspective into a Creole household, spanning four generations of love and greed, pride and betrayal, heroism and pettiness, violence and excess. And, her words are also an explanation to her children as to why she rejected the traditional confines of the Creole world to become a modern American of the 20th Century.

This new publication (168 pages) includes a photographic commentary (142 images) on Laura's long life (102 years) and is available for purchase at the Plantation Shop Store in Louisiana or online at the Plantation Shop.

Today, Laura Plantation is an historic cultural attraction open to the public, and Laura's "Memories" form the basis for the guided tours offered there daily.