LMR July 2023

86 TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
Hotel Bentley
The City is home to the Alexandria Museum
of Art, Arna Bontemps African American Museum
and Cultural Center, River Oaks Square
Arts Center, the Arts Council of Central Louisiana,
the Coughlin Sanders Performing
Arts Center, the Rapides Symphony Orchestra,
the Red River Dance Theatre Company,
Red River Chorale, and the City Park Players.
That’s quite a list of venues “Ellic” has going,
and they keep adding more. Essentially, Alexandria
is becoming more and more recognized
as a cultural hub, with something for
everyone at any time of the year.
Then there are the abundant outdoor spaces
that allow for Alexandria to be seen as a
tonic for what may ail any nature lover stuck
in the office too long. There’s the 33-acre Alexandria
Zoological Park, with conservation
at the forefront of its mind. There’s just under
2,000 acres of open spaces at the manufactured
Cotile Lake Recreation Area. There’s
just over 2,000 acres of land at the Indian
Creek Lake and Recreation Area, with over
acres set aside for camping. And then there’s
the Crown Jewel of Central Louisiana nature
“We’re honored to house a WWII exhibit
run through Camp Beauregard,” said
Hotel Bentley General Manager Martha
Turner. “We host it in a small area
of the hotel, with seating where visitors
can watch a DVD before touring the
artifacts collected during the Louisiana
Maneuvers and other WWII monumental
moments. We invite Louisiana’s municipal
leaders to tour the space while
here with us for the LMA’s 86th Annual
Convention.”
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