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COMMUNITY
ON THE JOB
Amanda McFillen
POSITION: Associate director of museum programs, on staff since 2007
ASSIGNMENT Co-curate the exhibition From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long
A Bloody Sunday—Sept. 8,1935
February 14, 1994; ink cartoon
by Preston Allen "Pap’’ Dean
The Anna Wynne Watt and Michael D.
Wynne Jr. Collection, 2013.0027.2.772
B Revolver belonging to George McQuiston
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The Anna Wynne Watt and Michael D.
Wynne Jr. Collection, 2013.0310.2.2
C “Long Shot, Assailant Slain”
from the New Orleans Times-Picayune September 7, 1975; facsimile reproduction of September 9, 1935, edition The Anna Wynne Watt and Michael D.
Wynne Jr. Collection, 2073.0027.2.763
As someone who loves our region s history, I enjoy my role as associate director of museum programs, because I continually learn more about the people, places, and events that shaped New Orleans and the Gulf South. My role includes exhibition
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and programming work: I help organize our annual Williams Research Center Symposium, film screenings, lectures, field trips, book signings, and more, and I also help curate exhibitions from time to time.
This past year I had the chance to work on the exhibition From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. LongWith my two fellow curators, John H. Lawrence, director of museum programs, and Matt Farah, museum programs assistant. First we decided how we would organize the exhibition as a team. Since we knew we wanted to focus on Huey Long’s life from childhood through his death, and not just on his 17-year political career, we divided the exhibition into three sections. John curated the section on Long’s early life, Matt covered his political career, and I curated the part that dealt with his death and legacy.
I began researching and surveying our holdings to see what kinds of material— objects, photographs, paper ephemera—we had related to Long. Thanks to recent donations, we have some wonderful new material, such as a great candid photograph of Long sitting in the amphitheater of his
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