Editing Gibsland, Louisiana (section)

==Arts and culture==

===Festivals===
The Jonquil Jubilee and Historic and Garden Tour and the Bonnie and Clyde Festival are celebrated annually. The Jonquil Jubilee offers advice to area gardeners from [[botanist]]s.

===Bonnie and Clyde Festival===
The [[Bonnie and Clyde]] Festival is held in Gibsland in mid-May. It features a staged bank robbery by actors portraying the infamous duo. The festival has been featured on the television program ''[[Weird U.S. (TV series)|Weird U.S.]]'' on the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]]. Bonnie and Clyde were killed off [[Louisiana Highway 154]], south of Gibsland toward Sailes.

=== Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum ===
Gibsland is home to the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum located in the former Ma Canfield’s Café where the outlaws ate their last meal, a breakfast.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> The museum is owned and operated by Perry Carver.  Linton Jay "Boots" Hinton (born January 1, 1934, died December 5, 2016), formerly of [[Dallas]] and a son of posse member [[Ted Hinton]] managed the museum until his health failed. The museum exhibits also mention the local posse members brought in for jurisdictional reasons, Bienville Parish Sheriff [[Henderson Jordan (Louisiana sheriff)|Henderson Jordan]] (1896–1958) and his chief deputy and successor as sheriff, [[Prentiss Oakley]] (1905–1957).

=== Gibsland-Coleman Alumni ===
Gibsland-Coleman Alumni Association was organized in 1981. The first reunion was held in July 1981. The Gibsland-Coleman Alumni Association is a non-profit organization of alumni and other individuals who are interested in supporting the organization-mainly providing college scholarships annually to graduating seniors. Chapters are located in Houston, Los Angeles, and Gibsland. The reunion is held in Gibsland annually during the first weekend of July.