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More than a third of the nation's oysters come from Louisiana waters and I think the oyster promotion people are dead right when they proclaim, "The Louisiana oyster. There's nothing quite like it....
Aug 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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V12 program kept school open
During World War II, Joel Fletcher, president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute (UL today), was forced to consider closing the school as more and more young men left the campus to go off to war. ...
Jul 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fabacher influential rice farmer
Roberts Cove is known as the home of a substantial settlement of German emigres who helped to create the commercial rice industry in southwest Louisiana. But they were not the only Germans to settl...
Jul 22, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Duson brothers were pioneer builders
C. C. (Curley) Duson and his brother, William W. Duson, would likely be remembered in Acadiana even if they hadn't been colorful characters. They founded four towns--Crowley, Iota, Eunice, and Mamo...
Jul 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 47 47 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 | 56 56 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 | 81 81 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 | 57 57 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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