William Weeks Hall

[1][2] His maternal grandparents David and Mary Conrad Weeks had built the Shadows-on-the-Teche plantation in 1834.

[3][5] He had many notable guests and friends in the arts that would come visit him in New Iberia including D. W. Griffith,[6] Henry Miller,[7][8] Cecil B. DeMille,[8] among others.

A New Iberian local musician Al E. Dieudonne dedicated his song, "Shadows-on-the-Teche" to Hall in 1930.

[10] He injured his arm in 1937, and was forced to give up painting, and around this time he started to focus more on photography.

[12] In Henry Miller's book, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945), includes information about his time in New Iberia and Hall is quoted (page 97).