Poverty Point and the Father of Jazz Music

Poverty Point 


Centuries ago, American Indians were building earthen monuments
in north Louisiana. Hand by hand and basketful by basketful, men
and women shaped nearly 2 million cubic yards of soil into
stunning landscapes. The result was a massive 72-foot-tall mound,
enormous concentric half-circles and related earthworks that
dwarfed every other earthen monument site for 2,200 years.





Buddy" Bolden 


An African-American cornetist who was regarded a key figure in
the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or
"jass", which later came to be known as jazz.