On this day in 1920, Lillian Mary Pitkin was born in New Orleans, LA, to John Pitkin and Lillian Bultman. She and her eventual husband, William Waterman, would retire to Metairie, in Jefferson Parish, LA – a community founded in the 1700s by French tenant farmers. In fact, the name “Metairie” is a French term for a small tenant farm. Far more urbanized now, although still unincorporated (technically, a “Census-designated place”), Metairie made history in 1989 when one of its voting districts (District 89) elected white supremacist (and former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan) David Duke to the Louisiana legislature – despite the fact that his opponent had the endorsement of President George H.W. Bush, former President Reagan, and other prominent Republicans.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:01:48 +0000
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