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Early settlers were true pioneers
When we talk about the American frontier we usually think about pioneers in Conestoga wagons lumbering across the Western prairies. But the first settlers in south Louisiana were every bit the pion...
Sep 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jury took up collection
Neighbors rallied around Joseph Hartman after he was convicted of manslaughter in 1847. They even took up a collection to take care of his wife when he was sent to prison. The story started on May...
Sep 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Melodious melodions
I had the pleasure earlier this month of sitting down for a long discussion with two of Acadiana's top accordion makers as a part of a UL-Lafayette oral history program. Randy Falcon, who began ma...
Sep 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 67 67 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dueling sheriffs in St. Landry
Gunshots were the inevitable result when two men claimed to be Sheriff of St. Landry Parish in the turbulent days after the Civil War. Deputy Sheriff S. Mayo was shot and killed in Opelousas in Se...
Sep 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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A coffin in a tree?
On Dec. 22, 1900, the Board of Control of the Louisiana State Penitentiary bought several hundred acres of land between New Iberia and Jeanerette to use as a prison farm. They named it, somewhat f...
Sep 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why is it For-ked?
It doesn't keep me awake at night, but one of the things that I've puzzled over from time to time is why we say when we come to a split in the road that it is forked, one syllable, but that when we...
Aug 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 75 75 recommendations | email to a friend
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Evangeline required a fight
It took several tries and a big court fight to separate Evangeline Parish from St. Landry. A good segment of the people of what was the northwestern part of St. Landry Parish started pushing for a...
Aug 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remembering Charlene
Thursday, August 11, was the anniversary of the death in 1959 of Charlene Richard, a little girl whom many people call "the Little Cajun Saint." Her story is known across the globe. Miraculous cure...
Aug 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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A miraculous cure in Grand Coteau
In 1866, Mary Wilson confounded her doctors and rose from her death bed at the Sacred Heart Convent at Grand Coteau. She said her cure was a miracle, worked by John Berchmans, a seminarian who had ...
Aug 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why does so much Louisiana French music come from the prairies of Evangeline Parish and western St. Landry?
Musical traditions such as the Saturday morning broadcast from Fred's Lounge in Mamou are rooted in a much longer tradition. Ville Platte has been officially designated by the Louisiana Legislature...
Jul 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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We do love to argue
As we celebrate the Fourth of July, a question as old as the nation itself once again comes to the forefront of our national debate: What does it mean to be an American? Immigration issues are one...
Jul 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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Of fastballs and turtle soup
Baseball buffs will know Satchel Paige as the ageless pitcher who didn't get his chance to play in the major leagues until he was in his 40s because the color line had not yet been broken. Even the...
Jun 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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