Elgene Guillot Collection
Elgene Guillot Collection
Box 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.
