BR icon "Buckskin" Bill Black has died

Baton Rouge children’s television icon “Buckskin” Bill Black died Wednesday at his home, his family confirmed. He was 88.Black was best known for Storyland, a children’s show that ran on WAFB from 1955 until 1990.Through the show, he spearheaded a fundraising – rather, a penny-raising – campaign to gather enough money for the Baton Rouge Zoo to buy an elephant. Children contributed their pennies and some appeared on the hand o