The STAR (Carville's Patient-Published Newspaper)

Sidney Levyson arrived in 1931 and took the name Stanley Stein to shield his family in Texas from the stigma. Within two months he began a two-page paper. He was going blind, and accounts differ on why it folded in 1934. In 1941 he revived it as a magazine, directing issues from his sickbed while patients such as Walter Chin read his letters aloud. In 1943 it campaigned against the word leper. Tallulah Bankhead became his pen pal and sold subscriptions. Patients in the Philippines read about Promin in its pages and raised money to buy it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 15 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Old State Capitol — 18 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 18 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 18 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul — steps away
• Cage Door of Harry T. Chimpanzee — steps away
• Triumph At Carville: A Tale of Leprosy in America — steps away
• Staff Housing, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville — steps away