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Lafitte wasn't only pirate
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one. A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 104 104 recommendations | email to a friend
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Saving the Southern Club
The news that an attempt is being made to restore the old Southern Club will bring a lot of memories to folks who remember what some consider the heyday of Louisiana's distinctive swamp pop music. ...
Mar 03, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two districts formed Acadiana
Most of what we now call Acadiana was once divided into two districts set up by the first government of the Louisiana territory. The Attakapas district included what is now Lafayette, St. Martin, ...
Feb 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Home Front gave much in WWII
Many slogans were associated with World War II but the unspoken slogan had to be "Waste not, want not." It seemed that the citizenry was constantly reminded that everything they'd once thrown away ...
Feb 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why Vermilion?
Why is the muddy, brown Vermilion River named for a shade of red? Legend has it that the name came from the red color of water that got into the river when the Red River flooded. It sounds plausibl...
Jan 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 66 66 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why Vermilion?
Why is the muddy, brown Vermilion River named for a shade of red? Legend has it that the name came from the red color of water that got into the river when the Red River flooded. It sounds plausibl...
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Why Vermilion?
Why is the muddy, brown Vermilion River named for a shade of red? Legend has it that the name came from the red color of water that got into the river when the Red River flooded. It sounds plausibl...
Jan 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 74 74 recommendations | email to a friend
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A simple song that went to the top
Floyd Soileau, in a note about our recent comments on the closing of his legendary record shop, reminds me of "a young musician from Lebeau who wrote and recorded a simple little song that won him ...
Jan 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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Estherwood and the pirate
Estherwood had two names before it became Estherwood: Tortue, after the Attakapas chief Celestine La Tortue, and Coulee Trief, for Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious man believed to have been one of...
Jan 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Decided oscillation' rolled St. Landry
Nearly 150 years ago today, "a very decided oscillation of the earth" startled the people of Opelousas and thereabouts, disturbing morning naps and sent tremors across Acadiana. The Opelousas Journ...
Jan 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Even Floyd's couldn't go on forever
Rod Bernard is one of a lot of folk who mourn the closing of Floyd’s Record Shop—an Acadiana institution if ever there was one. Floyd Soileau’s record shop and his Flat Town Music Co. founded in 19...
Dec 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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Long time between Christmases
It was just a week before Christmas in 1940 when several hundred young men from Lafayette, New Iberia, Breaux Bridge, and other parts of Acadiana boarded a train that would take them to Fort Blandi...
Dec 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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