Minnie Clyde Dixon Connell

In 1959 Clyde Connell's husband lost his job as superintendent of the Caddo Parish Penal Farm, and the couple moved to a small cottage on Lake Bistineau. She withdrew for about three years, then around 1962 began making sculpture, first painted steel Sunpath pieces, then wooden frames skinned in ground newspaper and glue, studded with tools and scrap metal her son Bryan brought her. Later series included Bound People and San Salvador, a memorial to victims of El Salvador's civil war. Her biographers link her style to the lake and to her civil rights work in the 1950s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum — 8.2 mi
  The state's first public petroleum museum in Oil City, on the 1905 Caddo Parish strike and the 1911 over-water well on Caddo Lake, with a derrick and a log-jam exhibit.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 17 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Spring Street Museum — 17 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 18 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.

More markers nearby

• Belcher Mound — steps away
• Louisiana Maneuvers Led by General Patton — 0.4 mi
• Town of Gilliam — 5.2 mi
• Mounds Plantation — 6.3 mi