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Les batailleurs du Marais Bouleur
Marais Bouleur, the area northeast of Rayne, had a rough reputation early on. People who lived there didn't back away from anything, least of all each other. That's why they got to be called les ba...
Jun 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Saint-Domingue had big influence
When we think of the history of Louisiana, French, Spanish, African, and Acadian influences immediately come to mind. We consider also the role of other European settlers -- Germans, Irish, Italian...
Jun 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to start watching the Gulf
Memorial Day weekend means it's time to start watching the Gulf. The beginning of hurricane season is less than a week ago, and the predictions are that this could be a mean one. Philip Klotzbach ...
May 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 211 211 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 207 207 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 194 194 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 ...
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 178 178 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Apr 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 de...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 116 116 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Apr 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Session to Host Controversial Agenda
Budget, tax plan will be joined by other issues BATON ROUGE — The regular session that convenes Monday will have no shortage of high-profile issues, beginning with Gov. Bobby Jindal's ambiti...
Apr 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 141 141 recommendations | email to a friend
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