Eric John Brock
Eric John Brock (September 24, 1966 - November 30, 2011) was an author, historian, and historic preservationist who researched and wrote extensively about his adopted city of Shreveport and the regional area of northwestern Louisiana.
Biography
Born in Berkeley, California, Brock moved with his parents at an early age to Shreveport. In 1988, he graduated from Methodist-affiliated Centenary College. He wrote sixteen books and more than five hundred articles on regional and city history. His columns entitled "The Presence of the Past" were published in the Shreveport Journal, a daily newspaper, which ceased regular publication in 1991. Brock also wrote the column "A Look Back" for the magazine The Forum Newsweekly in Shreveport. Toward the end of his career, Brock shifted his focus to the history of Ancient Rome. To make his work available to the public in perpetuity, Brock donated his extensive collection of Shreveport images and memorabilia to the archives at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
He died at the age of forty-five in Shreveport of a stroke and a heart attack. He was survived by his wife of six years, the former Shannon Glasheen, and his mother, Victoria Berg Brock, both of Shreveport; his father, Robert Donald Brock of El Cajon, California, and his paternal grandmother, Frances Smith Brock of Poway, California.
John Andrew Prime of the Shreveport Times described Brock, accordingly, "witty and urbane, a meticulous researcher and a bon vivant, he was a frequent contributor to area newspapers and magazines and also collected a vast amount of material, much of it primary, on Shreveport, Caddo Parish, and the surrounding area, particularly the period from the Civil War to around World War I."
*Red River Steamboats, with Gary Joiner, 1999
*New Orleans, 1999
*New Orleans Cemeteries, 1999
*Centenary College of Louisiana, 2000
*Eric Brock's Shreveport, 2001
*Jewish Community of Shreveport, 2003
*Shreveport in Vintage Postcards, 2005
*Natchitoches Parish, 2007
*Shreveport Chronicles: Profiles of Louisiana's Port City, 2009
Biography
Born in Berkeley, California, Brock moved with his parents at an early age to Shreveport. In 1988, he graduated from Methodist-affiliated Centenary College. He wrote sixteen books and more than five hundred articles on regional and city history. His columns entitled "The Presence of the Past" were published in the Shreveport Journal, a daily newspaper, which ceased regular publication in 1991. Brock also wrote the column "A Look Back" for the magazine The Forum Newsweekly in Shreveport. Toward the end of his career, Brock shifted his focus to the history of Ancient Rome. To make his work available to the public in perpetuity, Brock donated his extensive collection of Shreveport images and memorabilia to the archives at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
He died at the age of forty-five in Shreveport of a stroke and a heart attack. He was survived by his wife of six years, the former Shannon Glasheen, and his mother, Victoria Berg Brock, both of Shreveport; his father, Robert Donald Brock of El Cajon, California, and his paternal grandmother, Frances Smith Brock of Poway, California.
John Andrew Prime of the Shreveport Times described Brock, accordingly, "witty and urbane, a meticulous researcher and a bon vivant, he was a frequent contributor to area newspapers and magazines and also collected a vast amount of material, much of it primary, on Shreveport, Caddo Parish, and the surrounding area, particularly the period from the Civil War to around World War I."
*Red River Steamboats, with Gary Joiner, 1999
*New Orleans, 1999
*New Orleans Cemeteries, 1999
*Centenary College of Louisiana, 2000
*Eric Brock's Shreveport, 2001
*Jewish Community of Shreveport, 2003
*Shreveport in Vintage Postcards, 2005
*Natchitoches Parish, 2007
*Shreveport Chronicles: Profiles of Louisiana's Port City, 2009
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