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Second Line Umbrella Decorating Class

  • New Orleans Jazz Museum 400 Esplanade Ave. New Orleans United States (map)

Join us for the Second Line Umbrella Decorating Class on Tuesday, March 14th at 10:30 AM CDT in the Education Center at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

Take advantage of creating a personalized Second Line umbrella! We will provide the umbrella and a minimum amount of supplies. Feel welcome to bring additional decorations that tell what an awesome person you are! Examples are beads, feathers, boas, rhinestones, sequins, etc. This class is limited to 20 people.

This class is taught by Wiletta Ferdinand.

Wiletta Ferdinand 

Wiletta Ferdinand is a retired high school English teacher, mother of four, and grandmother of five, born, raised, and educated in New Orleans. She attended Xavier University, Howard University, and UNO. She recently received her Master’s degree in Museum Studies at Southern University in New Orleans. She has always been a lover of the history and culture of New Orleans which her books and her blog represent. She grew up in New Orleans but spent all of her summers with her grandmother in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Wiletta is also a family historian, who organizes the family trees on both the maternal and paternal sides of the family. She has recently incorporated the Jack Conrad 1887 Thibodaux Massacre Foundation and Museum. Her books are Jack Conrad and the 1887 Thibodaux Massacre, The Last Walk, This is My New Orleans, Katrina Made Me Write It, and Brother Kwame.

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