Collection:LPB

Genre: Documentary

Place Covered: Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2007-12-5

Duration: 00:26:27

Subjects: ATCHAFALAYA BASIN | SWAMPS | Houseboats | Roland, Gwen, 1948- | Voisin, Calvin | Lockwood, C. C., 1949-

Contributors:

• Melton, Christina Producer
• Fortenberry, Rex Q. Photographer
• Crews, Keith Photographer
• Esneault, Mike Composer
• Roland, Gwen Interviewee
• Voisin, Calvin Speaker
• Lockwood, C.C. Speaker

A 2007 documentary chronicling the experiences of writer Gwen Roland and her companion Calvin Voisin, who left civilization behind in the early 1970s to live on a houseboat in the unspoiled beauty of the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana, the nation’s largest river swamp. This documentary covers: Roland’s family history; the building of the houseboat; their life in the Atchafalaya Basin; their friendship with wildlife photographer C.C. Lockwood; Roland and Voisin’s appearance in “National Geographic” as a part of Lockwood’s article on the Atchafalaya; Roland’s decision to leave the houseboat; her life after the swamp; and her reunion with Voisin and Lockwood. Narrator: Gwen Roland