Fant-Ewing Coliseum

Students ran the concerts here. KNOE reports that Charles Mac McDonald, a former dean of student affairs, created the union board, now the Campus Activities Board, and students negotiated the contracts, handled advertising with TV and radio stations and sold the tickets. The coliseum became the site of almost all of ULM's Spring Fever concerts, and acts over the years have included Ray Charles, Chicago, Kenny Rogers and Sha Na Na. It is also the university's basketball arena. The trail paid for this marker with more than $5,000 from the ULM Opportunity Fund.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 1.5 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 3.2 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 3.7 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Masur Museum of Art — 3.7 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.

More markers nearby

• The Monroe Monarchs — 1.5 mi
• OH-6 Cayuse Helicopter — 1.6 mi
• Claire Lee Chennault — 1.6 mi
• Selman Field Navigator Memorial — 2.0 mi