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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...
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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 | 69 69 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 | 46 46 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 | 42 42 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 | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Courthouse fire helped create Acadia
A fire on March 22, 1886, that destroyed the St. Landry Parish courthouse in Opelousas is at least partially responsible for the creation of Acadia Parish. There had been an attempt some 15 years ...
Jun 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chataignier gets name from a tree
The Evangeline Parish town of Chataignier is named for a tree that isn't seen there very often anymore. It was a small tree, more commonly called a "chinquapin," that once dotted the surrounding pr...
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Poppies reminders of valor
At the end of World War I, the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lt. Col. John McCrae of the Canadian army became something of a national reminder of the valor of the young men who fought and died in Fr...
May 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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A flood by the numbers
Numbers are daunting for many of us. For instance, what does 1.5 million cubic feet of water per second really mean? Or 114,000 cfs, for that matter? The former is what the Corps of Engineers said ...
May 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 91 91 recommendations | email to a friend
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