William 'Cap'n Bill' Graziano Collection
Archival Collection
Box 1:
Folder 1: Bank
1. “A versatile and valuable citizen of Hammond…”
2. “City establishes cleanup panel”
3. “One Angry Man,” 30 September 1979
4. “Stall on erring signs irks district commissioners,” Daily Star, 8 March 1985
5. “Nick Nacks,” Sun, 22 September 1970
6. “The Death of a River,” The Ponchatoula Times, 31 May 1984 (2 copies)
7. “Letter to editor,” 24 October 1974
8. “More on the Manchac bridge,” 12 September 1974
9. Picture of cars
10. “from swamp to superhighway,” The Ponchatoula Times, 24 May 1984
11. “Hwy. 51,” The Ponchatoula Times, 24 May 1984
Folder 2: Pulse of Nature
1. Nine “Pulse of Nature” articles by Bill Graziano (10 pages)
Folder 3: 1956
1. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 18 October 1956
2. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 25 October 1956
3. “Fishing News,” “It’s New…,” and “Winners Announced at Cap’n Bill’s,” The Hammond Vindicator, 1 November 1956
4. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 21 February 1957 and 8 November 1956
5. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 22 November 1956 and 15 November 1956
6. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 29 November 1956
7. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 6 December 1956
8. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 13 December 1956
9. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 20 December 1956
10. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 27 December 1956
Folder 4: 1957
1. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 7 February 1957
2. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 3 January 1957
3. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 17 January 1957
4. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 4 April 1957
5. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 28 February 1957
6. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 7 March 1957
7. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 14 February 1957
8. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 31 January 1957
9. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 14 March 1957
10. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 21 March 1957
11. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 11 April 1957
12. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 9 May 1957 and 30 May 1957
13. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 6 June 1957
14. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 20 June 1957
15. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 4 July 1957
16. “Fishing with Cap’n Bill,” The Ponchatoula Times, 15 July 1971
17. “Fishing with Cap’n Bill,” The Hammond Vindicator, 10 June 1971
18. “Fishing with Cap’n Bill,” Murray Publications, 29 July 1971
19. “What Do You Think?” The Hammond Vindicator, 1 August 1957
20. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 22 August 1957 and 29 August 1957
21. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 5 September 1957
22. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 19 September 1957
23. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 26 September 1957
24. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 3 October 1957 and 31 October 1957
25. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 7 November 1957
26. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 21 November 1957
27. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 14 November 1957 and 28 November 1957
28. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 19 December 1957
29. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 26 December 1957 and 5 December 1957
Folder 5: 1958
1. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 27 June 1957 and 30 January 1958
2. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 3 April 1958, 16 January 1958, and 1 May 1958
3. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 5 June 1958
4. “Fishing News,” The Hammond Vindicator, 17 April 1958 and 24 September 1959
Folder 6: 1960
1. “Fishin’,” The Hammond Vindicator, 7 July 1960
Folder 7: 1965
1. “Air Force Movie Shown Boy Scouts,” Hammond Daily Star, 30 September 1965
2. “Plane Crash Reported; No Clues Found Today,” Hammond Daily Star, 4 October 1965
3. “Lake Recreation Plans Presented,” Hammond Daily Star, 2 June 1967
4. “Readers Forum,” Hammond Daily Star, 22 June 1977
5. “Is dredging ruining fishing in the lake?” Daily Star, 17 March 1967
Folder 8: 1967
1. “Letters to the editor,” Daily Star, 6 September 1967
Folder 9: 1972
1. “Going Fishing,” Sun, 18 October 1972
Folder 10: 1973
1. “Find Your Spot in the Outdoors,” St. Tammany News, 31 January 1973
2. “Fishing and Stuff,” St. Tammany News, 10 January 1973
3. “Lake Shell Reef Asked,” Hammond Daily Star, 5 July 1973; “Environmental Council,” Hammond Daily Star, 28 June 1973
4. “Fishing and Stuff,” St. Tammany News, 17 January 1973
5. “Fishing and Stuff,” St. Tammany News, 17 January 1973
6. Map, “Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas”
7. “Environmental Impact Statement Explained,” Sun, 5 September 1973; “Highway officials explain I-55 plan”
8. “Richest Estuary in the Land,” Sun, 26 August 1973; “River at Flood Stage,” Sun, 25 August 1973
9. “Pulse of Nature” and “River Surveyed by Helicopter,” Sun, 3 October 1973
10. “The Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 10 October 1973; “Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 14 November 1973
11. “Pulse of Nature” and “Back on Board,” Sun, 24 October 1973
12. “The Pulse of Nature,” Banner, 21 November 1973; article from Sun, 7 November 1973
13. “Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 21 November 1973; “Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 28 November 1973
14. “Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 5 December 1973; “Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 12 December 1973
15. “Death of a River,” Sun, 12 September 1973; “Pulse of Nature,” Sun, 26 September 1973
Folder 11: 1974
1. Letter to William Graziano from the Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery and Museum, 11 October 1974
2. Letter from B. E. Carver to William Graziano, 26 September 1974; “Letter to the editor,” Amite News Digest, 2 September 1974
3. Letter from B. E. Carver to William Graziano, 16 October 1974; “Resolution”
4. “More on the Manchac bridge,” 12 September 1974
5. “A dream come true: A ride in the railroad engine,” 15 October 1974 (3 pages)
6. “The Pulse of Nature,” 12 September 1974 (2 pages)
7. “The Pulse of Nature,” 26 December 1974
Folder 12: 1975
1. “Death of a Louisiana,” Dixie, 17 August 1975 (2 pages)
2. “Have You Ever…” Hammond Vindicator, 3 April 1975
3. “Ruddock: A something gone from the swamp, in the past,” Hammond Vindicator, 3 April 1975
4. “The Pulse of Nature,” February 1975
Folder 13: 1976
1. “Manchac Bridge,” Times-Picayune, 4 April 1976
Folder 14: 1977
1. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Daily Star, 10 June 1977
2. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Sunday Star, 26 June 1977
3. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Sunday Star, 27 November 1977
4. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Daily Star, 7 December 1977
5. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Wednesday Star, 14 September 1977 (4 pages)
6. “The Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Daily Star, 14 July 1977
7. “The Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Sunday Star, 24 July 1977
8. “The Pulse of Nature,” 2 October 1977
9. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Daily Star, 23 November 1977
Folder 15: 1978
1. “Springfield,” 2 April 1978
2. “Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Sunday Shopping Guide, 2 April 1978 (2 pages)
3. “The Pulse of Nature,” Hammond Daily Star, 21 June 1978
4. “The Tangi Tiger: Environmental Watchdog,” Sunday Advocate, 3 September 1978
Folder 16: 1979
1. Advertisement for The Citizens for a Cleaner Community
2. “Give Mr. “X” a name and win $100-$50-$25” advertisement
3. “Why isn’t litter problem being solved?”17 September 1979
4. “Tourism needs litter ban,” 25 September 1979
5. “From a Silent Marshalnd…Came a Bustling Town…Reclaimed by Nature,” Sunday Advocate, 6 May 1979
6. “Graziano says apathy killed clean up effort,” Hammond Daily Star, 26 October 1979 (2 copies)
7. “Hammond Electrician…” (2 copies)
8. “Anti-Litter Campaign Launched,” Times-Picayune, 23 May 1979
9. Email from Rosemary Graziano Morris, 17 March 2014 with article “Councilmen considering camera to battle litter,” Hammond Star, 12 March 2014
Folder 17: 1980
1. “Graziano, Chamber clash,” 23 December 1980
2. “Pulse of Nature,” The Hammond Vindicator, 13 November 1980
Folder 18: 1981
1. “Gadfly Graziano goes for political appointment,” 20 August 1981 (2 copies)
2. “Letters to the Editor: Graziano’s historic twilight zone,” 13 August 1981
3. “A final word from Graziano,” 24 September 1981
4. “Letters to the Editor: Graziano’s last hurrah,” Hammond Vindicator, 23 July 1981
5. “Letters to the Editor: Graziano hot,” Hammond Vindicator, 18 June 1981
Folder 19: 1984
1. “Shell dredger, fisherman differ sharply on dredging effects,” Ponchatoula Times, 19 April 1984
2. “Writer flies over Manchac reports muddy waters,” Ponchatoula Times, 31 May 1984
3. “Shell dredgers’ return to Maurepas still on hold,” 21 March 1984
4. “Letters to the Editor: Graziano and Lennox on shells,” Ponchatoula Times, 9 July 1984
5. “Local fisherman opposes dredging,” Ponchatoula Times, 5 April 1984
6. “Shell dredging dangers argued by guest columnist,” Ponchatoula Times, 14 June 1984 (4 pages)
Folder 20: 1985
1. “Longtime fisherman blasts dredges,” Louisiana Sportsman, September 1985 (2 pages)
Folder 21: 1986
1. “The Apple Farm,” Ponchatoula Times, 25 December 1985 (2 pages)
2. “The Tragic End of Last Island,” Ponchatoula Times, 23 October 1986
3. “Ruddock’s tragic tale: hurricane destroys German village,” Ponchatoula Times, 2 October 1986
Folder 22: 1987
1. “Smoking Cigarettes is Slow Death,” 28 May 1987
2. “Frenier: a lost lakeside town,” Ponchatoula Times, 1 October 1987 and 8 October 1987 (2 pages)
3. “Group finds abandoned town of Frenier,” 7 March 2014
4. “A True Civil War Story: The Invasion of Ponchatoula,” Ponchatoula Times, 28 May 1987
5. “Ode to a River,” Ponchatoula Times, 24 December 1987
6. “The Forgotten Dead,” 17 December 1987
7. “A true story of the Civil War: Murder at Little Bridge Crossing,” Ponchatoula Times, 23 April 1987, 30 April 1987, 7 May 1987, and 14 May 1987 (4 pages)
Folder 23: 1990
1. “Special to the Times,” Ponchatoula Times, 14 June 1990
2. “A beaten trail opens the heart,” Ponchatoula Times, 5 July 1990
3. “Founders of our Frontier: Iberville & Bienville,” Ponchatoula Times, 24 May 1990
