Audubon Pilgrimage Festival

Celebrates a southern spring in St. Francisville, the glorious garden spot of Louisiana's English Plantation Country. For nearly half a century the sponsoring West Feliciana Historical Society has thrown open the doors of significant historic structures to commemorate artist-naturalist John James Audubon's stay as he painted a number of his famous bird studies and tutored the daughter of Oakley Plantation's Pirrie family, beautiful young Eliza. A year's worth of planning and preparation precedes each pilgrimage, and with 49 years of experience under their belt, society members put on one of the South's most professional and enjoyable pilgrimage presentations.