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Tula Springs
Tula Springs is a fictional town in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, and the setting of a series of novels by the United States, American novelist James Wilcox (novelist), James Wilcox. Starting with Wilcox's acclaimed debut novel ''Modern Baptists'' (1983), Tula Springs has served as the setting for five subsequent novels: ''North Gladiola'' (1985), ''Miss Undine's Living Room'' (1987), ''Sort of Rich'' (1989), ''Heavenly Days'' (2003), and ''Hunk City'' (2007). Wilcox's other novels (set in New York) include brief mentions of Tula Springs or characters with ties to the town. Michiko Kakutani wrote in her ''New York Times'' review of ''Sort of Rich'': "Tula Springs is one of those peculiar outposts of the New South - half suburb, half small town, poised between a quickly receding pastoral past and a greedy, consumerist future. It's the kind of place where people are ignorant about the details of the American Civil War, Civil War, but up on the latest kinds of sunlamps and Jacuzzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Parishes
The Florida Parishes ( es, Parroquias de Florida, french: Paroisses de Floride), on the east side of the Mississippi River—an area also known as the Northshore or Northlake region—are eight List of parishes in Louisiana, parishes in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana; the Florida Parishes were part of West Florida in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Unlike most of the state, this region was not part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase; it had been under British Empire, British and then Louisiana (New Spain), Spanish control since 1763. History The area that became the Florida Parishes was at one time part of Louisiana (New France), French Louisiana. Following the French and Indian War, however, the region—like most of the rest of French Louisiana east of the Mississippi River (excluding Île d'Orléans, Louisiana, New Orleans)—was transferred to Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain. This region became part of the British colonial province of West Florid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
