Elgene Guillot Collection

Box 1

1. Super 8 millimeter tape-contains images from the Celebration of Life rock music festival

The Celebration of Life Festival occurred in McCrea, LA in Pointe Coupee Parish in
1971. This festival was meant to be a small follow-up festival to Woodstock. Elgene
Guillot was only 27 years old when he and a group of friends took photographs of the
various people and sights of the music festival. Among the photographs are: “hippies”
swimming in the Atchafalaya River, people sliding down the “mudslide” into a giant
mud puddle, and festival attendees camping out along the banks of the river. The last
section of the tape is from a separate trip irrelevant to the festival.