The Shadows-on-the-Teche and First Horizon Bank are hosting an opening of four brand new exhibits on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at 3:00 P.M. at the Shadows Visitor Center (320 E. Main Street, New Iberia). Tickets to attend the opening are $35 and include a year-long membership in the Friends of the Shadows.

Opening festivities will include live music, light catering, and a credit bar* for the Shadows Old Fashioned.

For the past year, staff at the Shadows has worked on researching, writing, designing, and producing new exhibits that:

• provide an overview of national, state, and local history from the Antebellum to the Jim Crow period;

• showcase artifacts found onsite during archaeological digs;

• highlight the men and women who worked for William Weeks Hall, the last private owner of the Shadows;

• and share an inside look of William Weeks Hall as an eccentric artist and gay preservationist.

Funding for the exhibits was provided by a grant from the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area with matching funds from the Marder-Vaughn Center for Interpretation and Education at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.