The Los Isleños Historical Archive, a collection of present-day interviews, artifacts, photos, video recordings and oral history, has opened at Nunez Community College.

The collection was donated by Frank M. Fernandez Jr., former St. Bernard Parish historian. Fernandez worked with Bill Hyland, the current historian, on the project.

Beginning in the 1980s, Fernandez began making hundreds of video recordings of Isleño elders and community members. The interview topics from those tapes range from family genealogies to folklore to traditional Isleño cuisine.

The collection, which has been used in the past by visiting scholars, is now open to the public. The archive includes complete digitization and translation and online access.

Nunez was a subrecipient of U.S. Treasury Grant RESTORE Act

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