# Event Details

- **Event Name**: History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Not long after the first commercial steamboat found its way from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 1812, steamboat travel up and down the Mississippi soon became easy and affordable means of transportation. Merchants and businessmen traveling from city to city became an easy mark for professional gamblers. In this presentation, author and historian Derby Gisclair will trace gambling in the city and its move from the clandestine casinos hidden in every corner of the city to the hundreds of steamboats where there was greater anonymity and less legal enforcement in a floating world of fortune and fraud. Many of the vignettes are drawn from his book “New Orleans Steamboat Stories.”

A lifelong resident of New Orleans, S. Derby Gisclair is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and its 19th Century, Minor Leagues, Deadball Era, Oral History, and Pictorial History Committees. He heads the Schott-Pelican Chapter of SABR in Louisiana and is on the Nominating and Selection Committees for the Greater New Orleans Professional Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the author of several books including: Baseball in New Orleans, Baseball at Tulane University; and Early Baseball in New Orleans – A History of 19th Century Play, and The Dixie Series.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/metairie/history-lecture-tales-of-riverboat-gambling/200029927693406
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Metairie
- **state**: LA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: East Bank Regional Library
- **lat**: 29.99541
- **long**: -90.18635
- **full address**: East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W Napoleon Ave, Metairie, LA 70001-2310, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling  being held?
  - **A:** History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling  takes place on Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm at East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W Napoleon Ave, Metairie, LA 70001-2310, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling ?
  - **A:** History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling  is organized by Jefferson Parish Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling  is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Metairie, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If History Lecture: Tales of Riverboat Gambling  sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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