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Bunk Johnson had proper nickname
Everyone's heard of Louis Armstrong, the most famous New Orleans jazz trumpeter of all, but the man who created Armstrong's music and who the New York Times said taught Armstrong to play that music...
Feb 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Politics and old feud turned deadly
Practically everyone's heard of the long running feud between the Hatfields and McCoys in the Appalachian back country, but we've had a few bloody family encounters in Acadiana too. One of them cam...
Feb 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Forty acres yielded riches
When I was a small child I thought all pickup trucks were painted gray and carried on the door a yellow decal with a red devil in the center. I also thought these trucks carried potted meat. As ...
Jan 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nothing like Louisiana politics
The old story goes that in the early 1970s Louisiana sold some used voting machines to Matamoras, Mexico. They were used for the first time in a local election in Mexico several months later, and ...
Jan 23, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Did Ada and doc meet in heaven?
When James LeBoeuf, Morgan City's power plant superintendent, disappeared on Friday night, July 1, 1927, his wife, Ada, said he'd probably gone to Lafayette. She didn't report his disappearance to...
Jan 16, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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The soldiers kept coming back
Nothing is left where the farmhouse of Louis Francois Desire Arnaud and his wife Sarah Burleigh Arnaud stood in the middle 1800s near Grand Coteau. It was a nice house, well situated. Their big far...
Jan 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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Caffery was leading diplomat
As the new year began nearly 60 years ago, Americans were not very popular in the Middle East. The question of what to do with displaced Palestinians was very much in the news and the American stan...
Jan 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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A New Year’s retrospective
Over the half century that I have been writing about Acadiana, I’ve driven down practically every road in south Louisiana, visited (or at least passed through) every named community, and met and b...
Dec 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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The story of a Christmas foundling
The letter to the Lafayette Advertiser published on February 16, 1901, was headlined, "A History Veiled in a Mystery - A Young Man Seeking His Unknown Mother." The letter told the story of an i...
Dec 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chachere royalty?
We're pretty sure that Louis Chachere arrived at the Poste des Opelousas at least by 1790, because on November 25 of that year he signed a legal document saying so. The document also said that he c...
Dec 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deficit reduction
Another deficit reduction commission has now made its recommendations. My own recommendation for dealing with deficits would include stopping the appointment of deficit reduction commissions. It i...
Nov 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Old Man
From a friend of mine on the Internet came the following which I thought you might appreciate. I ran it before but in light of Veteran’s Day just past, I am running it again. “As I came out of the ...
Nov 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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