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'Fire Fiend' destroyed swath of Rayne
The Crowley Signal said it was a wind-driven 'fire fiend' that licked through a big part of Rayne in February 1895. Said the newspaper, the flames "within a space of two short hours left a dozen...
Jul 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Blanc brothers hanged for celebrated murder
Two French orphans who made their way to Louisiana said reading about the robber Jesse James caused them to commit a notorious murder. The brothers were born in Paris, Ernest Blanc in 1877 and Al...
Jul 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Perry provided river crossing
The act that created Vermilion Parish in 1844 said the parish seat should be located on the west side of the Vermilion River, no more than one-half mile from a place called Perry's Bridge, today th...
Jun 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana Story a movie classic
"Louisiana Story," filmed in south Louisiana in 1946 and 1947 may be the most poetic industrial film ever made. Helen van Dongen, who was film editor for the movie, called it a "ballet of the roug...
Jun 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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As far as I'm concerned, 'no mas'
This weekend was one of best, most 'historic' sporting weekends that fans of many sports have had in quite sometime – well, at least since the end of last football season. Even though ‘I’ll Have An...
Jun 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Handicapping Field Day
The first athletic contests at Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute (UL Lafayette today) were annual Field Days begun in 1904, in which SLII and area high schools competed in track and field ...
Apr 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 77 77 recommendations | email to a friend
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A birthday in St. Landry
The St. Landry Parish town of Washington was settled in 1720 and claims to be the second oldest settled place in Louisiana, behind Natchitoches, which was established in 1714 and is said to be the ...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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As hard as it is for me to say it - 'The Saints were wrong'
Boy that Roger Godell wasn’t playing around was he? By now everyone in the country knows about the New Orleans Saints and their ‘bountygate’ scandal. However, does the punishment fit the crime? Tha...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 50 50 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 | 99 99 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 | 8 8 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 | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
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