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Who's offended by 'c' word?
There's a minor flap going on because a local singer uses the "c" word to describe himself and his friends in the lyrics to one of his songs and the former head of CODOFIL doesn't like it. I'm n...
Mar 18, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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The lesson every father should teach
When I was around 13-years-old, the most popular video game in the history of the world at that time was called Asteroids (showing my age, right?). My parents would drop my buddies and me off at th...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 116 116 recommendations | email to a friend
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Political one liners
Tis the season to make fun of politicians as people have done for ages but in the coming presidential election, I believe we have to recognize and understand that this election may be the most imp...
Feb 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Happy Fats heard nationwide
Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
Jan 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 65 65 recommendations | email to a friend
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How many 'original' colonies?
Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
Jan 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 61 61 recommendations | email to a friend
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De Flaugeac a man for all seasons
Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
Jan 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 68 68 recommendations | email to a friend
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Olympian names in Acadiana
A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
Nov 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 72 72 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Little red church' has long history
The "little red church," on Hwy. 182 between Opelousas and Sunset has no pastor and no Sunday services but still has a large congregation that meets once each year. It's history dates to the years...
Nov 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gray gloves changed a custom
War leaves lasting legacies, sometimes in places and ways that we least expect. That was the story behind the headline in October 1951 about a wedding in Vermilion Parish involving a World War II v...
Nov 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tales of fortune excited heirs
Sixty-eight million dollars is a lot of money, even if it is going to be split among 120 people, especially if most of them are poor southwest Louisiana farmers. That's why there was such big exci...
Nov 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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They hunted the rascals down
Rev. J.M. Johnson was the only passenger aboard the stage coach that pulled out of Bayou Chicot in what is now Evangeline Parish about 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3, 1881. But the driver, Robert Fergu...
Oct 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jake, Fifine, and Father Forge
Three thousand people, about half of the town population, attended the last rites for Father Ernest Forge, a beloved and long-time pastor of St. John Cathedral in Lafayette in 1905. He was so loved...
Oct 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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