C’est Vrai: Fire was big threat to towns Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
Fire was big threat to towns Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
C’est Vrai: Remembering Mary Alice It’s hard to believe that today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acadian...
Remembering Mary Alice It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
C’est Vrai: Cinqo de Mayo and Louisiana Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army’s defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862,
It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to o...
Cinqo de Mayo and Louisiana Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
C’est Vrai: Smokestack marks old plantation Midway between Jeanerette and Baldwin on Hwy. 182, part of an old smokestack rises forlornly above the cane fields. It once stood above what some historians say was the finest sugar factory in Lou...
C’est Vrai: The death of Guillaume Barjeau In October 1788, César Archinard, Edward Murphy and François Brunet were sent to the Bayou Chicot community by Nicolas Forstall, commandant of the Poste des Opelousas, to investigate the sudden dea...
C’est Vrai: Adventure of a pioneering priest Father William Teurlngs labored for 62 years in southwest Louisiana and was a giant in the early history of the Lafayette diocese.
A Dutchman, he came to Louisiana in 1895 to become assistant pasto...
C’est Vrai: Italian feuds brought immigrants here Feuding at home brought many Italians to Louisiana in the middle 1850s. A good number of them used ties to the old country to establish themselves in food distribution businesses, first in New Orl...
C’est Vrai: Egg knocking serious business “Pacques Pacques” means “Easter Easter” in French, but it is also the name in Louisiana of a contest that began innocently enough but that has become a major tradition in some Louisiana communities...
Egg knocking serious business "Pacques Pacques" means "Easter Easter" in French, but it is also the name in Louisiana of a contest that began innocently enough but that has become a major tradition in some Louisiana communities...
