Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey.

If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a thoroughbred horse-racing track, listening to hundreds of mostly Louisiana musicians (with the odd Martiniquan, Texan or Bob Dylan thrown in), watching Louisiana craftspeople construct pirogues and weave baskets, satiating your gastronomic desires with a variety of Louisiana food and sipping non-Louisiana beer...