By Marilyn Miller
LaMa Animal Rescue & Support Services, a non-profit, volunteer group advocating for the many homeless, abused & neglected animals of Northwest Louisiana and the surrounding areas, has a new best friend.
It’s nestled into the midst of Springhill, Louisiana and just recently it played host to a pack of thugs, molls, mafia dons, mob bosses and flappers! It’s called Oak Cottage, located at 406 3rd Street, NW, and in late 2023 it was donated to LaMa by the Boone family.
Why would all of these 1920s-era mobsters and molls show up at Oak Cottage? “To take part in the role-playing murder mystery game, “Murder on the Boardwalk – a 1920s Mystery,” according to one of the organizers, Michelle Benson Lewis.
Although the biggest event by far, “Murder on the Boardwalk” is not the first affair to take place at the cottage-style home built by Floyd and Ruby Barnes in the early 1940s. An Open House took place Saturday, April 14. And LaMa hopes that more and more people will utilize the new event venue and Bed & Breakfast.
The home features fine crystal, spacious rooms, and antique furnishings.
For more information about LaMa or Oak Cottage, go to Facebook or follow www.lamaanimalrescue.org.
